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TORRES DELIS, Yolanda; VERGARA LOZANO, Pedro; HURTADO MARCELL, Odalis  e  SOCORRO FEBLES, Daisy. Program of respiratory physiotherapy in the patient with medullary injury. Rev Cubana Ortop Traumatol [online]. 2002, vol.16, n.1-2, pp. 79-81. ISSN 1561-3100.

It is made a review of the medical literature on the clinical respiratory manifestations of the patient with spinal cord injury and on the complications of the respiratory system appearing in any of the three stages these patients pass through. The programs created at the Department of Respiratory Rehabilitation of "Julio Díaz"National Reference Center are applied with good results for patients.

Palavras-chave : SPINAL CORD INJURIES [complications]; RESPIRATORY THERAPY.