Terapia Física

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    “Perfil de evaluación respiratoria en adultos mayores de las parroquias Santa Rosa - Apatug y Atahualpa del Cantón Ambato”
    (Universidad Técnica de Ambato - Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud - Carrera de Terapia Física, 2019-02-01) Jarrín Pilco, Daniela Priscila; Espín Pastor, Victoria Estefanía Lcda. Mg.
    The present research work carried it out with the intention of realizing a Profile of respiratory evaluation in older adults of the parishes Santa Rosa - Apatug and Atahualpa of the Canton Ambato, it takes these populations because they have different height on the sea level as for its geographical place extremely important fact in the investigation. This is a study observacional with a quantitative and qualitative approach in addition to being provided with a transverse, bibliographical and field investigation, in which 50 patients who met the inclusion criteria determined by the researcher. Once that is established parishes and the older population to be evaluated, useful tools were used ones of them is the spirometry equipment useful for multiple measurements such as: lung capacity and at the same time the diagnosis of the spirometric patterns key points in research etc., in addition to a data collection tab, the informed consent and another tab where it specifically contained the data spirometric. The data were collected with the help of the leaders of each group of older adults by what was done in the month of September to October 2018, in a period of approximately 15 days, taking into account the number of people participating and which were excluded proceeded to conduct an analysis of the data collected focused on lung capacity, spirometric patterns and possible risk factors in this older population.