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What can be done for someone with high blood carbon dioxide levels in COPD?
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∙ 13y ago
I'm not sure about a medication , but there is a treatment which involves being placed in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber and breathing a special oxygen..not your usual O2. This helps the red blood cells expel the carbon dioxide and take up oxygen. When you have carbon dioxide poisoning, you are hypoxic because the red blood cells are not carrying oxygen to your vital organs.
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∙ 15y ago
Wiki User
∙ 13y agoHigh carbon dioxide levels would be a side effect of the COPD due to the problems with inhalation. So any treatment that reduces carbon dioxide levels would have to reduce the effects of the COPD itself.
There are a few treatments for COPD such as drugs (bronchodilators, β2 agonists, anticholinergics, corticosteroids, and other drugs that treat the symptoms), pulmonary rehabilitation (regimented exercise), and supplemental/concentrated oxygen (such as inhalers or oxygen tanks). If smoking is the cause, then cessation can be a factor in convalescence. In extreme and life-threatening cases, lung transplantation may be an option.
Wiki User
∙ 10y agoThe normal cure for high levels of carbon dioxide in the blood is breathing.
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Receptors that detect carbon dioxide levels in the blood are?
Chemoreceptors detect the levels of carbon dioxide in the blood.
What has the greatest stimulation on the respiratory center in the brain?
blood carbon dioxide levels
What happens to the blood concentration level of carbon dioxide following increased breathing?
With increased breathing, levels of carbon dioxide in the blood drop and levels of oxygen rise.
How is most of the carbon dioxide that enters the blood transported?
Depending on the levels of hydrogen ions, carbon dioxide is converted into bicarbonate in the blood
What is the rate of respiration determined by levels in blood?
The rate of respiration is determined by the levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood. The main controller of the rate of respiration is the brain.
Why might blood carbon dioxide levels be higher in an individual with pulmonary disease when compared to the carbon dioxide levels of a healthy person?
When you have pulmonary disease, you may fail to give out carbon dioxide. So the percentage of carbon dioxide increase in your blood. That is the indicator of the severity of the pulmonary disease.
How does smoking affect carbon dioxide levels?
Smoking increases carbon monoxide levels in the blood as opposed to carbon dioxide. Carbon monoxide ties up hemoglobin so that smokers have lower blood oxygen levels. Chronic inflammation has been linked to the high levels of carbon dioxide that smokers breathe in as it is 200 times the atmospheric rate.
Levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood are tested by?
Oximetry.
What determines rate of respiration?
It is the carbon dioxide levels in the blood
What If carbon dioxide levels in the blood increase then pH .?
decreases
If carbon dioxide levels in the blood decrease then pH .?
increases
What determines the rate respiration?
It is the carbon dioxide levels in the blood
