Breathe - Respiratory rehabilitation for Covid-19

Purpose and goal The project objective is to offer respiratory and voice rehabilitation remotely via a mobile app to Covid-19 and intensive care patients worldwide, thereby improving people´s lives and health. The aim is to create a mobile application in collaboration with healthcare, medical expertise and Covid-19 patients with the goal of helping Covid-19 patients to regain normal respiratory and voice function after a difficult course of illness and / or intensive care. This rehabilitation is also suitable for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), asthma and similar lung diseases. Expected results and effects Develop a mobile app that provides rehabilitation programs for respiratory and voice rehabilitation with pre-recorded exercises designed in collaboration with expertise linked to the project. Through a patient study, the exercise program will be optimized, and the effect verified. In the long term, it is intended to offer individualized rehab via the app, where singers, a profession with good knowledge in breathing and voice techniques who have been severely affected by the pandemic, are involved as breathing coaches and thus offered engagements and opportunities for adaptation. Planned approach and implementation The project begins with defining requirements and design of the mobile application, followed by technical development of the app. In parallel the rehab program is detailed by iterative testing on patients, verified and the results used to further develop the exercises. In this phase interviews with staff and patients will be conducted with the aim of taking advantage of their experience. Instructional videos describing the completed exercises are recorded and integrated into the technical solution, which is then verified and followed by the app launch and distribution.