[Implementation of the ICD-ICF model in rehabilitation medicine: report of a clinical case in respiratory rehabilitation].

We present the clinical case of a 74 years old patient undergoing tracheotomy for persistent hypercapnic respiratory failure after lower right lobectomy surgery, performed as a result of pulmonary cancer recurrence. The patient was transferred to the Department of Respiratory Sub Intensive Care for respiratory weaning, decannulation and cycle of motor and respiratory physiotherapy. The joint evaluation of physicians, nurses and physiotherapists has allowed the identification of ICD-9 and ICF codes of the severe disability shown by the patient in the first days of hospital stay (respiratory failure due to pneumonia that need invasive mechanical ventilation by tracheotomy, prolonged immobility, muscular deconditioning and inability to perform even the simplest activities of daily life; it required also artificial nutrition by naso gastric tube).