COPD - Are You a Pink Puffer?

The BMI element isn't something I routinely think about except in the sense that a lot of my patients who have advanced COPD are eucalytic often because of their COPD. Pink puffer is somebody who has hypoxemia assessment intact in their brainstem and they will work to keep their oxygen level and CO2 level, their CO2 response is high as well. Somebody who is a blue blower usually is overweight and just doesn't give a hoot about what their carbon dioxide and their oxygen are.