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Does someone need oxygen therapy when he or she is on medications?
Oxygen therapy is provided to those who suffer from acute or chronic conditions such as COPD. Oxygen therapy is done in association with other medical treatment which can include other medications.
What other respiratory complication can occur due to atelectasis?
Shortness of breath, COPD, asthma, and low oxygen levels to the body requiring oxygen therapy.
What are doctors using for COPD treatment?
The following are some of the ways doctors are treating COPD to help improve health: use of medications to help ease symptoms, such as bronchodilators, vaccinations to help prevent different types of infections that can complicate COPD, oxygen therapy and in some cases surgical procedures.
What is the best, most effective kind of COPD treatment and why?
The best most effective treatment of copd is to quit smoking. Other treatments include medications such as bronchodilators, inhaled corticosteriods, and antibiotics. Some people do home oxygen therapy and pulmonary rehabilitation.
Is advair and spiriva the best copd therapy?
It depends on severity. see a pulmonologist (lung doctor) for a prescription. The short answer is Yes. Spiriva is a anticholinergic and works in the large airways. It is important in COPD to address bronchomotor tone. Spiriva does this by blocking the muscarinic receptors. Advair contains two agents in one. In short, Advair addresses the inflamation component of COPD. The two together are considered the "one two punch" in this disease state. The person who gave the first answer is correct. Seeing a pulmonologist is the best bet. Your primary care physician would have no problem prescribing this therapy and should put a COPD patient on the two way before you have to see a pulmonologist if he is on top of current therapy. You should also have a rescue therapy such as albuterol on hand. In the severe stages of COPD oxygen could also be used.
Why would you purchase oxygen?
COPD and lung diseases.
How often do you monitor the oxygen saturation in COPD patients?
This varies with the severity of the COPD and how well the patient is doing on whatever the current oxygen therapy happens to be. The doctor will adjust the oxygen if the patient seems to need more than what was originally prescribed; patients on long-term oxygen therapy have regular check-ups to make sure all continues to go well. Doctors will sometimes use a device called a pulse oximeter for rapid assessment, especially if the patient is experiencing some distress that he or she was not having before. And some doctors are now encouraging patients to have a pulse oximeter at home, so they can monitor their oxygen saturation after physical activity, or between doctor's visits.
What conditions require respiratory therapy?
Respiratory therapy is used in the treatment of breathing disorders. Some such disorders include asthma, COPD, emphysema, and bronchitis.
Why would a COPD patient have a higher percentage of red blood cells than a healthy person without COPD?
That is the good question and you probably know the answer. In case of the COPD patient you have less perfusion of the oxygen. The red blood cell production is stimulated by the low concentration of the oxygen.
What illness due to lack of oxygen and you look like sleeping?
copd
What causes hypoxia in person with COPD?
Hypoxia is where there is low oxygen concentrations in the tissures so therefore this must be due to the lack of oxygen in the blood due to poor/lack of gas exchange caused by the copd
What is fixed performance oxygen therapy?
Non fixed performance oxygen therapy is also known as variable performance oxygen therapy. The amount of oxygen that is administered varies from patient to patient and from breath to breath.
