COPD; Roadside to Resus
The Resus Room
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What's Going on With the Exacerbation of COPD?
COPD is actually just an exacerbation of the sort of existing situation. So more airway inflammation, more mucus and worsened bronchoconstriction to top it all off we get some airway edema. Now that all results in reduced ventilation to the alveoli and hypoxic vasoconstriction of the pulmonary arterioles which means less perfusion to theAlveoli. If we really don't intervene potentially death. It's not a great picture.
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