Spirometry Observational Studies Med One MED ONE 2017, 2:e170013 | Email:mo@qingres.com June 25, 2017 1 DOI: 10.20900/mo.20170013 Received: March 18, 2017 Accepted: May 26, 2017 Published: June 25, 2017 Copyright: ©2017 Cain et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License,which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Protocol of an Observational, Follow up, Single Arm Study for Knowing the Compliance of Patients Scheduled for Major Abdominal and Thoracic Surgeries Who Were Instructed to Perform Spirometry in a Single Specialty Centre Abhijit S. Nair 1* , Suresh Seelam 1 , Aanchal Bharuka 1 , Priya P. Nayak 1 , Mohammad Salman Saifuddin 1 , Basanth Kumar Rayani 1 1 Department of Anaesthesiology, Basavatarakam Indo-American Cancer Hospital and Research Institute, Road No.10, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad-500034, Telangana State, India. Corresponding to: Abhijit S. Nair. Email: abhijitnair95@gmail.com . STUDY PROTOCOL Protocol of an observational, follow up, single arm study for knowing the compliance of patients scheduled for major abdominal and thoracic surgeries who were instructed to perform spirometry in a single specialty centre. ABSTRACT Peri-operative incentive spirometry (IS) helps in improving pulmonary function, facilitates sputum clearance and prevents unwanted postoperative pulmonary complications after major abdominal and thoracic surgery. In our hospital, all patients are instructed to practice IS before abdominal and thoracic surgeries so that they can perform it in the postoperative period effectively. However, many patients do not follow our advice. A few unfortunate patients land up with pulmonary complications as it becomes diffcult to train them after surgery. Methods and analysis We designed an observational, follow up, single arm study to know the http://mo.qingres.com