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Background: Applying coughing exercises and patient's position alteration are considered non-pharmacological nursing managements which are helping to enhancement exchange of gases also respiratory status, this is of benefit to some pulmonary indicators for the COVID-19 patients. Method: a clinical trials study done from October, 11th, 2021, to May, 17th, 2022. To determine the Effectiveness of applying Coughing Exercises during Prostration in improvement of pulmonary Parameters on the sixty patients who were randomly selected. Results: more than 60% of the patient was within the age of more than 60 years, 61% of study group was males and 46.7% for control group as well as, more than 36 % of the patients did not suffering from any chronic diseases, but 30% of them had asthma. 40% of patients had effect in bilateral peripheral part and central area. Additionally, the mean of the pulmonary parameters in the study group reported a statistically significant difference, whereas the control groups did not. Conclusion: The COVID-19 patients' respiratory parameters were improved by the coughing exercises during prostration, and the beneficial effects persisted to more than 4 hours © 2023, Journal for ReAttach Therapy and Developmental Diversities.All Rights Reserved.
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Method: A sixty patients with COVID-19 were randomly selected to conduct an experimental study to investigate the benefits of prostrate position and coughing exercises upon cardiopulmonary parameters among non-intubated patients with COVID-19. Results: two-thirds of participants were >60 years old, 60% and 46.7% of the experimental and control group respectively were males, 36.7% of participants did not have any chronic diseases, but asthma was present in a third of them. The bilateralperipheral and central area was the affected part of the lung in more than 40% of patients. More than 45% of the lung volume was affected in 80% of the experimental group and 50% of the control group. Finally, 96.7% of the experimental group and 90% of the control group did not take the COVID-19 vaccine. Furthermore, a statistically significant difference was found between the mean of cardiopulmonary parameters for the experimental group, while there was no statistical significance difference that was shown in the control group. Conclusion: the application of prostrate position and coughing exercises have a positive effect on improving cardiopulmonary parameters among COVID-19 patients lasting for more than four hours.