Pathophysiology
The specific part of the body that is affected by COPD.
What is the airways of the lungs?
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?
This helps to prevent lung illnesses such as the flu, RSV and pneumonia.
What is getting immunizations?
The #1 cause of COPD.
What is Smoking?
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?
The substance that obstructs the airways.
What is mucus?
When it comes to medication therapy, this skill/technique will help manage your COPD symptoms.
What is knowing how to take respiratory medications?
Doing this helps to prevent the thickening and build-up of mucus.
What is drinking plenty of fluids?
COPD ranks at this level as a major cause of death in the US.
What is 3rd?
Abdominal or belly breathing trains this main muscle of breathing to do most of the work of breathing.
What is the diaphragm?
The 3 most common symptoms of COPD.
What are Shortness of breath, Chronic cough, and Productive cough.
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?
The activity using soap and water can help reduce the spread of germs and prevent illness.
What is good and frequent hand washing?
Daily Double!!!!! This is the test used to diagnose COPD.
What is Spirometry or Pulmonary Function Test?
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?
This activity is the only thing known to slow the progression of COPD.
What is quitting smoking?
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? SABA
This can lead to improved stamina, breathing, and a better quality of life.
What is exercise maintenance?
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.
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?
Because COPD can't be cured and gets worse over time it is known as this.
What is a Progressive disease?
These are used as Long-term controllers/maintenance medications.
What are Inhaled corticosteroids or long-acting bronchodilators?
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?
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.”
What is an exacerbation of COPD?
The 2 main lung diseases that make up COPD.
What are Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema?