COPD; Roadside to Resus
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COPD - What's the Point of a Clinical Assessment?
The scale is a bit more objective but also relates not just how breathless are you but how is that impacting on your life. We're going to be looking for evidence of bronchospasm so obviously we're going to being listening to the chest and really watching how they're breathing as well. They auto peeping so while they're using that purse lips breathing to splint open their alveoli to maximize the efficiency of their breathing what the saturation I think that's fair to say after all the stuff that we've covered already. Now it's also worth saying that in the nice guidelines they explicitly state in the COPD line that overestimation of saturations has been reported in people with
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