BREATHING DIAPHRAGMATIC.

OBJECTIVE

Educate the patient to use the diaphragm as the main structure of breathing.

Material

- Nursing records.

Equipment

- Pillows or pillow.

PROCESS

1. Inform the patient.
2. Check the permeability of the patient's nostrils.
3. Place the patient in supine position and knees slightly flexed,
With one hand, in the upper abdomen and the other in the thorax.
4. Instruct the patient to do a slow and deep Inspiration, through
The nose, so that, with the hand on the abdomen, the distension is felt
Of the same, until reaching the maximum. At this point you will start releasing the
Air with the mouth slightly open (like fogging a crystal).
5. Exhale slowly until you notice that the abdomen is empty.
6. Record in Nursing records.

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1988. Page 71-75.
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Basic Nursing. Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs. Madrid.
1991. Page 183,184.
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Child Jesus. Madrid. 1991. P. 86-92.
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