Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Quality of Life

Exclusion Criteria

• •Patients who were not extubated in twenty-four hours,
• •who were under 18 years of age,
• •had not undergone CABG surgery using the open-heart method and using a saphenous vein graft for CABG,
• •who were not conscious,
• •were visual and hearing problems,
• •who don't spoke Turkish,
• •had orthopedic, psychiatric and neurological problems,
• •co-morbid lung disease,
• •who had been re-operated on,
• •had postoperative cardiac dysfunction,
• •had developed postoperative atrial fibrillation,
• •who were not willing to participate in the study.