COPD stands for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. It is typically caused by inhaled irritants such as tobacco smoke. It is a chronic inflammation of the airways, lung tissue, and pulmonary blood vessels. It limits air flow and is irreversible. The inflammation causes excess mucus production. This results in chronic cough, dyspnea, and wheezing. The inflammation response is caused by a grouping of cells in the airways from neutrophils, T-lmyphocytes, and other inflammatory cells that trigger…
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is composed of two related diseases, chronic bronchitis and emphysema. He is likely to have a chronic or recurrent productive cough that is over three months to two successive years. He will experience shortness of breath on exertion, sputum production and frequently develop hypoxemia, which could lead to cyanosis.…
Simon Koster is a 94-year-men who was admitted and was treated for COPD exacerbation and community acquires pneumonia. The patient has a history of COPD, but does not use oxygen at his home. Since being here at the hospital, the patient health has improved. The patient needed oxygen and she was examined for home O2 and was approved for it yesterday. The patient’s lungs were very tight and he had bilateral wheezing and mostly on the right side, he had rhonchi. He seemed fragile and even though he was requesting to be discharged, he did not appeared well for approval. During the night the patient needed to urinate and needed use the restroom. He stated that he needed to urinate and stated that he decided not to call for assistance and that the…
Provides 3-4 consequences of COPD from the first column. Information is mostly scientifically sound, thorough, necessary and sufficient.…
World Health Organisation (WHO) (2013) Chronic respiratory disease; COPD: Definition. [Online]. Available from: http://www.who.int/respiratory/copd/definition/en/index.html [Accessed on the 17th January 2013].…
Systemic manifestations and Comorbidities of COPD It defines Comorbidities' existence of each disease entity separate addition, during the clinical course of a disease object office [1]. The presence of Comorbidities has prognostic value with respect to survival, but also compared with the functional state. As with other chronic diseases, the prevalence of Comorbidities in elderly COPD is extremely high, the severity of Comorbidities and their impact on the various health status of the patient and patient and in the same subject over time, potentially in that so influence the clinical picture and especially the results. The Cigarette smoking is the most important and best recognized risk factor for COPD, is also a major risk factor for other chronic diseases and neoplasm [2]. Comorbidities for COPD…
Your neighbor with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has developed heart failure. Based on his underlying disease, what type of heart failure does he likely have and how did he develop it?…
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is a progressive disease that constricts airways and dramatically hinders a person’s ability to breathe. It affects around 13% of Australians aged 40 or over. It causes mucus or blood-filled coughing, chest tightness and severe shortness of breath. The disease is comprised of Chronic Bronchitis, Asthma and Emphysema, with the seriousness of it being judged by four levels, each level increasing in severity. To this day, there is no known cure for the disease.…
“Prolonged cold weakens out resistance to infection” is a statement that’s true whether or not you’re in a weakened state of health. For those that are, for instance, people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the effects of cold can be much more severe and potentially more likely to be permanently damaging. As is explained by Liesl Osmond, regarding a study conducted regarding temperature and sufferers of COPD, “This is the first time a direct relationship has been found between the number of hours a house is warm and respiratory health status – in this case that of patients with COPD, and it would seem that this relationship is most marked for smokers.” While it should come as no surprise that smoking will effect your respiratory health, it is interesting to note that the smokers that were part of the study who suffered from COPD had better respiratory health when exposed to warmer temperatures than those who lived in buildings with below-ideal temperatures.…
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a progressive lung disease that gradually affects a personal ability to breath. COPD is an ailment that destroys the tissues of the lungs where oxygen is exchanged which results in coughing, that produces excessive amounts of mucus, and shortness of breath caused by inflammation and stiffening of the airways. In this condition, there is an obstruction in the lungs which causes less air oxygen to reach the necessary tissues which make it more difficult to dispose of carbon dioxide. Through the progression of the disease it becomes more challenging to remain active due to shortness of breath.…
September 11, 2001just after 8:45a.mif you turned the television on the images you saw took your breath away. Little did we know that 14 years later that would be one of the aftermath a lot of the servers, first responders and people who were in the area that day would still be feeling. Due to the collapse of the Twin Towers and the fumes from jet fuel burning people are surfing daily from repertory issue. Some of the first responds started becoming ill weeks after this. They began developing repertory problem; Asthma, Pulmonary Fibrosis, Sarcoidosis and Lung cancer are just some of the issues they devolved. Soon people that where in area that day began devolving the same issues. Now these poor people have this will be haunted not just of image they much rather forget but along road of poor health.…
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) or also known as Chronic Bronchitis or Emphysema is a disease that happens in the lungs of people who smoke. It blocks the airflow to the lungs with black tar / black carbon. Some symptoms are excessive coughing and continuously out of breath. To ease the symptoms you could you use inhalers, steroids, antibiotics or just more oxygen. This disease will slowly kill you because it affects your respiratory system therefore making it a long and agonising suffocation. COPD is an incurable disease.…
There is a thin line between public health and an individual's freedom. However, the public should be able to do whatever one desires to do because it is part of our freedom. I believe people should not be able to choose and just follow the orders they are given to, for their health and the public's health.…
It is a chronic, or long-term, disease that inflames and narrows the airways of the lungs. It causes repeated episodes of wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness, and night time or early morning coughing. The microbe that causes the illness is chronic Mycoplasma pneumonia and Chlamydia pneumonia infections, and are associated with the onset and exacerbation of asthma.…
COPD include renal damage, malnutrition, muscle wasting, osteoporosis, and anemia. (McCance & Huether, 2014, p. 1267).…