ABSTRACT
A successful comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation program depends on these key pieces: thorough planning, an experienced coordinator who is a patient advocate, a dedicated and supportive medical director, enthusiastic and committed team members, the use of program graduates as volunteers, and providing the essential components of pulmonary rehabilitation, which consist of assessment, patient training, exercise, psychosocial intervention, and follow-up. The patients are the most important members of the team. Their courage, dedication, and determination to make their quality of life the best it can be is truly an inspiration to all of us.
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Lung Diseases/history , Lung Diseases/rehabilitation , Patient Care Team/history , Respiratory Therapy Department, Hospital/history , California , History, 20th Century , Hospitals, Community/history , Humans , Lung Diseases/psychology , Quality of Life/psychologySubject(s)
Cough/complications , Ephedrine/therapeutic use , Syncope/drug therapy , Aged , Humans , Long-Term Care , Male , Syncope/etiologyABSTRACT
A new species of bacteria that is an etiologic agent of human pneumonia has been isolated and characterized. Clinical symptoms of infection with this organism are not readily distinguishable from those caused by Legionella pneumophila infection. The organism was isolated from respiratory tract specimens from four patients. Two cases of infection apparently originated in California and one in Georgia, and a fourth was of unknown geographic origin. The name Legionella longbeachae species nova is proposed for this organism. The type strain of L. longbeachae is Long Beach 4 (= American Type Culture Collection 33462).
