id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-324898-bjxpuqhr Lazzeri, Marta How Italian respiratory physiotherapists have faced and are facing the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic 2020-08-03 .txt text/plain 1620 73 34 Where present, respiratory physiotherapists (RPh) made a great contribution by working together with other health professionals in assisting patients, providing "quick basic training sessions" about respiratory care for non-specialist healthcare professionals, locating and assessing all kinds of equipment (ventilators, interfaces, oxygen delivery systems, among others) to assist patients with respiratory failure and implementing early intervention with those patients in healthier conditions. Despite the absolute novelty of the pathology and the lack of scientific evidence, based on the available knowledge of physiopathology and respiratory care strategies, in collaboration with other scientific societies (Associazione Italiana Fisioterapisti -AIFI-, Associazione Italiana Pneumologi Ospedalieri -AIPO-, Società Italiana Pneumologia -SIP-, European Respiratory Society-ERS-), documents have been published in open-access journals and platform aimed to promote safe use of personal protective equipment (PPE) and to support the decision process in the management of COVID-19 patients in the acute and postacute phases [1] [2] [3] [4] . ./cache/cord-324898-bjxpuqhr.txt ./txt/cord-324898-bjxpuqhr.txt