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Background As a result of the corona pandemic, the implementation of physiotherapy as teletherapy was initially permitted for a limited period of time and subsequently approved for an unlimited period of time. Patients with gonarthrosis and coxarthrosis can be a target group.Aim To explore the behavior and feedback of patients with gonarthrosis and coxarthrosis, including patients who have had endoprosthetic treatment, during teletherapeutic treatments using screencasts.Method Patients with gonarthrosis or coxarthrosis, possibly after endoprosthetic treatment, received 6 treatment sessions including 5 by teletherapy. Participants completed the Musculoskeletal and Joint Health Questionnaire (MSK-HQ) and the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index (WOMAC). The first and last treatment sessions were videotaped and thereafter transcribed. Coding of the text passages was deductively content-analytic.Results 5 patients were included (2 m, 3w;56 to 78 years;3 gonarthrosis, 2 coxarthrosis;of those 2 with endoprosthesis). The behavior and patients' perspectives were assigned to the main categories of person-related factors, treatment characteristics, point of view or environment-related factors, each with 2-5 subcategories. The evaluation showed a thoroughly positive attitude towards teletherapy. This despite initial doubts and lack of knowledge about the method. Factors such as framework conditions, technology, personal motivation and compliance, as well as the relationship between patient and therapist, were found to influence the patients' attitude towards this method. A mixed therapy design consisting of teletherapy and conventional methods received a preferred resonance. For all participants, a clinically relevant improvement of the WOMAC was observed (7-47 points;improvement MSK-HQ 1-13 points).Conclusion The behavior of the participants shows that a sound planned teletherapy can be well implemented in practice. The description of the patient perspective provides researchers and practitioners with information that can be used for the further development of teletherapeutic treatment concepts for patients with gonarthrosis or coxarthrosis as well as for patients with musculoskeletal complaints in general.
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Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic there is a need for a rapid increase in intensive care and ventilation capacities. Delivery times for additional intensive care respirators are currently not foreseeable. An option to increase ventilation capacities not only for COVID-19, but for all patients requiring mechanical ventilation is to use home respirators. Home respirators are turbine respirators, so they can usually be operated without high-pressure oxygen connections and can therefore also be used in areas outside the classical intensive care medical infrastructure. Due to their limited technical features, home respirators are not suitable for the treatment of severely affected patients but can be used for weaning after respiratory improvement, which means that intensive care respirators are available again more quickly. Respiratory therapists are specially trained nurses or therapists in the field of out of hospital ventilation and can independently use home ventilation respirators, for example for weaning in the intensive care unit. Thus, they relieve intensive care nursing staff in the pandemic. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic medical students from the Oldenburg University are currently being trained in operating home respirators to provide basic support in the hospital if necessary.