Medication and Treatment for COPD Inhaled Therapies NICE COPD guidelines have made specific recommendations regarding the use of inhaled long-acting bronchodilators and inhaled steroids separately and in combination‚ but newer studies have assessed these drugs singly and in combination over longer periods of time. Bronchodilators (relievers) Short-acting beta2 agonists (SABA) Beta2 agonists act directly on bronchial smooth muscle to cause bronchodilation. They are the most widely used bronchodilators
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an inflammatory lung disease that results in obstructed airflow from the lungs. When a person takes a breath‚ air travels down the windpipe into airways. These airways scatter into smaller‚ much thinner tubes that end in a bunch of tiny air sacs. These air sacs stretch and inflates when a person breathes in and then deflates when the person breathes out. When a patient is diagnosed with COPD‚ their lung function
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lead to the buildup of plaque that hardens and narrows the vessels‚ causing a disease called atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis is a common cause of heart attacks and peripheral artery disease. Smoking increases your likelihood of developing high blood pressure. The carbon monoxide inhaled from cigarette smoke interferes with the way oxygen is carried by your blood to organs‚ including the heart‚ which links it to heart disease. Smoking also increases the incidence of blood clots‚ which can lead to strokes
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review will be looking at an assortment of scholarly articles available online in order to investigate the effects of different kinds of chronic joint pain‚ their causes and different methods of treatment with varying levels of effectiveness and acceptance by the medical community. Chronic joint pain is primarily caused by arthritis‚ the common name for over 200 diseases and conditions that cause swelling and inflammation of joints and surrounding tissues. The most common forms of arthritis‚ and the three
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The bad kind of stress is called distress. Acute stress is your body’s immediate reaction to a new challenge‚ event‚ or demand. Episodic acute stress is when acute stress happens frequently. People who are pessimistic tend to have acute stress. Chronic stress is stress that is constant and doesn’t go away. When you feel anxious or in danger‚ your body produces hormones such as cortisol. This hormone may cause you to get sweaty palms and have rapid or shallow breathing. Stress hormones are released
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Cigarette Smoking and the Secondhand Smoking Disease‚ Emphysema Gregory A. Smith‚ Jr. University of Phoenix COMM/105 Dr. R. LoDato March 24‚ 2010 Cigarette smoking is a worldwide problem. Studies show that one in three adult’s smoke‚ with more than one billion people smoking worldwide
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The most interesting fact is that almost all of them use scientific sources to prove their positions. My research suggests that passive smoking is harmful and it might cause the following: mortality‚ lung cancer‚ chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)‚ and coronary heart disease (CHD). According to the Oxford dictionary of English language‚ passive smoking is “the involuntary inhaling of smoke from other people ’s cigarettes‚ cigars‚ or pipes” (Soanes and Stevenson‚ 2005). The definition
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CIGARETTE SMOKING Cigarette Smoking American InterContinental University Abstract Cigarette smoking is something that has because second nature to most people. They wake up‚ smoke a cigarette. Before they go to bed‚ they smoke a cigarette. And all throughout the day‚ as they feel the urge‚ they smoke a cigarette. It has become a very dangerous habit that a lot of people don’t realize is a dangerous habit. In this paper I will discuss the negative effects that smoking cigarettes
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highlighted. The focus of the appraisal with be on “Promoting the health of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; patients and their carer’s views” (Caress et al‚ 2010). The format of the appraisal will be formed around a set of criteria (see appendix 1). The journal looks at the views of patients and their carer’s experiences with living the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)‚ its causes‚ how they manage with the symptoms‚ its progression and what role they
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Asthma is a chronic condition of the respiratory system that causes hypersensitivity and reversible inflammation of the airways resulting in breathing difficulties (Levy et al.‚ 2006). One of the features of the disease is fixed airflow obstruction which is where the patient’s FEV1/FVC ratio is less than 0.7. The reduction of this ratio is caused by parenchymal and airway damage resulting from chronic inflammation (Nice.org.uk‚ 2010). Fixed airflow obstruction is more commonly found in severe asthma
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