Incentive spirometry versus routine chest physiotherapy for prevention of pulmonary complications after abdominal surgery
- 20 April 1991
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Elsevier in The Lancet
- Vol. 337 (8747), 953-956
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0140-6736(91)91580-n
Abstract
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