The first batch¹ of 16 students from Sun Yat-sen University's breath therapy major have been recruited by top hospitals in Guangdong Province soon after graduation, according to a report by the Guangzhou Daily.

 

《广州日报》报道，中山大学呼吸治疗专业第一批学生共16人毕业后悉数被广东省内高级医院聘用。

 

Breath therapists are specialists who help to rehabilitate² patients with a variety of lung conditions by teaching them how to breathe in a way that reduces their pain or clears their congested chest.

 

The breath therapy master's degree at Sun Yat-sen University is the first in China based on principles of rehabilitation³ education, said He Zhijie, the director of the Intensive Care Unit at Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital. When the university launched the course in 2014, it was only the third medical school in the country to offer breath therapy as a major. There is a growing need for breath therapists in intensive care units and emergency departments, according to He Zhijie.

 

An example of where breath therapy can turn around a patient's prospects⁴ is the case of an 80-year-old patient who had relied on a ventilator for four months after being hospitalized for pneumonia⁵. He was then transferred to the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health where two fresh graduates majoring in breath therapy had just been recruited. Through a combination of careful adjustments to the ventilator, and helping⁶ the patient with exercises for their respiratory muscles, the patient was able to breath independently after only two weeks.

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