NUR 290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 46: Pulmonary Heart Disease, Roflumilast, Respiratory Acidosis
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How these two conditions are the same: both terms are categorized under the term copd (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, limit airflow, patients have the inability to fully exhale. Pphosphodiestrace-4 inhibitors: roflumilast : spirometry is ordered to diagnose. The inflamed and deformed bronchioles produce excessive mucous due to hyperplasia of the goblet cells. The cilla are damaged so they can"t move mucus out of the airway and this limits the patient"s ability to have proper gas exchange and breathe with ease. Major signs & symptoms: chronic productive cough (lasts more than three months, shortness of breath, cyanosis, v/q mismatch. Main issue is with inflammation of bronchioles due to the damage from inhalation of some type of irritant. This leads to cyanosis blue color and increased lung volume bloating and edema (late effects on the heart for the development of cor pulmonale). Patients with chronic bronchitis are also known as blue bloaters .
