Background: Physiotherapy is one of the oldest branches of healthcare profession which is concerned with holistically rehabilitating the patient. In recent years, the field has evolved rapidly providing evidence based quality health services. Inspite of people awailing physiotherapy services its awareness to a certain extent appears to be less. The purpose of this study was to find level of awareness of Physiotherapy among medical professionals and general population. Materials and Methods:A semi structured, self-administered questionnaire was prepared on Google Forms with open and close ended questionnaire. They were circulated among medical and general population via social media, accessible to all for a period of one week. The data was calculated automatically by Google spreadsheet.Results: 103 people from medical and 153 people from general population filled the questionnaire.90% of medical professional and 78% of general population knew physiotherapy field. Both groups were aware about specialties of Physiotherapy. However awareness was less in specialty such as Cardiovascular and pulmonary conditions, Plastic surgery, Oncology and Post-surgery physiotherapy in both the populations. Conclusion:There is a dire need to take measures to improve awareness of the field and its specialties. Education program should be done on large scale to improve the knowledge and perception of Physiotherapy among medical and general population

A bstract Background With the Wuhan pandemic spread to India, more than lakhs of population were affected with COVID-19 with varying severities. Physiotherapists participated as frontline workers to contribute to management of patients in COVID-19 in reducing morbidity of these patients and aiding them to road to recovery. With infrastructure and patient characteristics different from the West and lack of adequate evidence to existing practices, there was a need to formulate a national consensus. Materials and methods Recommendations were formulated with a systematic literature search and feedback of physiotherapist experiences. Expert consensus was obtained using a modified Delphi method. Results The intraclass coefficient of agreement between the experts was 0.994, significant at p < 0.001. Conclusion This document offers physiotherapy evidence-based consensus and recommendation to planning physiotherapy workforce, assessment, chest physiotherapy, early mobilization, preparation for discharge planning, and safety for patients and therapist in acutec are COVID 19 setup of India. The recommendations have been integrated in the algorithm and are intended to use by all physiotherapists and other stakeholders in management of patients with COVID-19 in acute care settings. How to cite this article Jiandani MP, Agarwal B, Baxi G, Kale S, Pol T, Bhise A, et al. Evidence-based National Consensus: Recommendations for Physiotherapy Management in COVID-19 in Acute Care Indian Setup. Indian J Crit Care Med 2020;24(10):905–913.

INTRODUCTIONThe patients undergoing abdominal surgery has characteristic post-operative mechanical abnormality in respiration like restrictive pattern of ventilation.

SARS-CoV-2 2 also known COVID 19, has been observed to cause long term functional impairments. There have been reports of post covid discharge symptoms such as dyspnoea, fatigue, and reduced overall capacity. Physiotherapy is an integral component of pulmonary rehabilitation. It plays a key role in improving functional status and quality of life in patients with chronic respiratory diseases. COVID 19 being a multisystem disease with primary affection of the lung can be benefitted with physiotherapy intervention. We present a case series of four patients with complaints of dyspnoea and fatigue post covid, enrolled for face to face pulmonary rehabilitation at our tertiary care centre.

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