title: Relation between respiratory muscle strength with respiratory complication on the heart surgery.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To check the respiratory muscle strength in cardiac surgery and the relationship with the postoperative pulmonary complications.
  
  
  METHODS
  Sixty-tree adult's patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery were enrolled in this study. In the day of the surgery all patients did the respiratory muscle strength test. In the postoperative a multidisciplinary team took care all patients and they receive physiotherapy treatment twice a day following the usual care of the hospital. In the fifth day after surgery, the patients repeat the respiratory muscle strength test and were examined postoperative pulmonary complications.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A significant lower inspiratory muscle strength (P = 0.001) and expiratory muscle strength (P = 0.0001) was found in the postoperative, however it wasn't statistics significantly the relationship between the inspiratory muscle strength (P = 0.58) and expiratory muscle strength (P = 0.4) preoperative with postoperative pulmonary complication.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The respiratory strength preoperative couldn't be a predictor of postoperative pulmonary complication.
authors.affiliation: christiane_riedi@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Christiane
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Riedi
authors.forename: Cintia Teixeira Rossato
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Mora
authors.forename: Taissa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Driessen
authors.forename: Mônica de Castro Guimenes
authors.initials: Mde C
authors.lastname: Coutinho
authors.forename: Diogo Mattos
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Mayer
authors.forename: Fabio Luiz
authors.initials: FL
authors.lastname: Moro
authors.forename: Carla Regina Camargo
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Moreira
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D017558:Elective Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D053580:Muscle Strength / Q000502:physiology*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology; D011184:Postoperative Period; D057234:Preoperative Period; D012132:Respiratory Muscles / Q000502:physiology*; D012140:Respiratory Tract Diseases / Q000209:etiology*