History of COPD
In 1846 this device was created too measure lung capacity and is still used today to diagnose COPD.
What is the spirometer?
COPD stands for this and affects this system.
What is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and the respiratory system?
The pathophysiology behind the narrowed airways associated with COPD
What is chronic inflammation within the small airways
This is the term used when COPD symptoms get worse quicky.
What is flare-ups?
Fill in the blank: Decreased activity tolerance r/t ____________________.
What is imbalance between oxygen supply and demand?
These were the peak years for COPD.
What are the 1980's and 90's?
These are the six anatomical changes seen in a person with COPD.
What are narrowed airways, destroyed air sac walls, loss of elasticity, mucus production, barrel shaped chest, and impaired gas exchange.
The pathophysiology behind destroyed air sac walls.
What is the alveoli are damaged causing them to rupture?
These are the major symptoms of COPD.
What are SOB, wheezing, chronic cough, chest pressure, and fatigue?
Fill in the blank: Impaired gas exchange r/t ____________.
What is ventilation-perfusion inequality?
This common medical instrument is coined with first discovering COPD.
What is the stethoscope?
COPD is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide, causing roughly this many deaths in 2021.
What is 3.5 millions deaths?
The pathophysiology behind the loss of elasticity.
What is the destruction of the alveolar walls?
These three things should be monitored in a patient with COPD.
What are oxygen saturation, respiratory rate, and pulse rate?
Fill in the blank: Sleep deprivation r/t ____________________.
What is breathing difficulties when lying down?
This British physician identified chronic bronchitis as a disabling health condition and part of COPD.
Who is Charles Badham?
These are the three types of COPD.
What are chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and asthmatic bronchitis?
The pathophysiology behind mucus production.
This is encouraged and charted in patient with COPD.
What is productive cough?
Fill in the blank: Chronic low self-esteem r/t ____________.
What is chronic illness?
The Swiss physician Theophile Bonet, who discovered the first case, referred to COPD as this.
What is "voluminous lungs"?
This gender is more likely to have COPD and by this percentage.
Females by 37%
The pathophysiology behind barreled shaped chest seen in COPD.
What is the air sacs become trapped causing the rib cage to expand?
This should be closely monitored, charted, and treated in a patient with COPD.
What is intake and output?
Fill in the blank: risk for infection r/t _____________.
What is stasis of respiratory secretions?