The atmospheric gas that is used to treat COPD patients with severe disease and should be used as directed like any other medication is known as this.
What is oxygen?
100
This helps to prevent lung illnesses such as the flu and pneumonia.
What is getting immunizations?
100
The #1 cause of COPD.
What is Smoking?
100
The breathing technique that slows your breathing down, reduces the work of breathing, keeps airways open longer to get rid of stale trapped air.
What is Pursed-lip Breathing?
200
The substance that obstructs the airways.
What is mucus?
200
When it comes to medication therapy, this skill/technique will help manage your COPD symptoms.
What is knowing how to take respiratory medications?
200
Doing this helps to prevent the thickening and build up of mucus.
What is drinking plenty of fluids?
200
COPD ranks at this level as a major cause of death in the US.
What is 3rd?
200
Abdominal or belly breathing trains this main muscle of breathing to do most of the work of breathing.
What is the diaphragm?
300
The 3 most common symptoms of COPD.
What are Shortness of breath, Chronic cough, and productive cough.
300
Doing this will help keep your medication delivery device from becoming contaminated and causing infection.
What is keeping the device clean and changing out equipment as directed?
300
The activity using soap and water can help reduce the spread of germs and prevent illness.
What is good and frequent hand washing?
300
Daily Double!!!!!
This is the test used to diagnose COPD.
What is Spirometry or PFT?
300
COPD is not curable but is manageable by reducing risks of exacerbations, making healthy lifestyle choices and knowing baseline symptoms and following the action plan for treatment which leads to this.
What is a better quality of life?
400
This activity is the only thing known to slow the progression of COPD.
What is quitting smoking?
400
These are quick relief medications that are short acting to open up airways that can be taken daily on a scheduled basis or only as needed for symptoms.
What are bronchodilators?
400
This can lead to improved stamina, breathing, and a better quality of life.
What is exercise maintenance ?
400
Relieve symptoms
Improve exercise tolerance
Improve health status
Prevent disease progression
Prevent and treat exacerbations
Reduce mortality
are parts of this.
What are goals to manage stable COPD.
400
All COPD patients can benefit from exercise training programs with the goal of improvements in exercise tolerance and symptoms of dyspnea and fatigue are called this.
What is Pulmonary Rehab?
500
Because COPD can't be cured and gets worse over time it is known as this.
What is a progressive disease?
500
Long-term controllers: Inhaled corticosteroids or long-acting bronchodilators are maintenance medication and not intended for this use.
What is acute symptoms of shortness of breath?
500
This is the strategy of knowing your baseline breathing and symptoms, monitoring breathing and symptoms for changes and following the recommended treatment plan.
What is the Flare-up Action Plan?
500
This definition describes what process: "an acute event characterized by a worsening of the patient’s respiratory symptoms that is beyond normal day-to-day variations and leads to a change in medication.”