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What is COPD purely defined by?

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Airflow obstruction

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What is their not mention of when defining COPD?

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  • Symptoms
  • Bronchitis or emphysema
  • Smoking
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What causes airway obstruction?

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Occurs due to small-airway narrowing

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What can make airway obstruction worse?

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Inflammation and mucus

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What can worsened airway obstruction lead to?

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Progressive breathlessness on exertion, along with coughing and wheezing

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Who is treated for COPD?

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Those who are symptomatic

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What are the trends in prevalence of COPD?

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  • Male predominance
  • Increasing prevalence
  • More prevalent in the less educated
  • More prevalent amongst lower income households
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Where does COPD rank in the UKs mortality tables?

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6th most common cause of death

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How does COPD impact the NHS?

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  • Increasing burden on NHS
  • Hospital admissions
  • Beds
  • GP visits
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What must be paid for with each COPD patient?

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  • Inpatient hospitalisation
  • Treatment
  • Scheduled GP and specialist care
  • Unscheduled GP and emergency department care
  • Laboratory tests
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What aspects of patients lives does COPD impact?

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  • Climbing stairs
  • Gardening
  • Housework
  • Dressing
  • Sleep disturbances
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What is 85% of smoking attributable to?

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Smoking

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Apart from smoking, what other causes of COPD are there?

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  • Chronic asthma
  • Passive smoking
  • Maternal smoking
  • Air pollution
  • Occupation
  • a1 antitrypsin deficiency
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How does maternal smoking contribute to COPD?

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Reduces FEV1 and increases respiratory illness

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What occupations are thought to be associated with COPD?

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  • Coal mining
  • Hard rock mining
  • Tunnel working
  • Concrete manufacturing
  • Construction
  • Farming
  • Foundry working
  • Plastics
  • Textiles
  • Rubber
  • Leather
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What does a1 antitrypsin do?

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Neutralises enzymes released by neutrophils

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What is the normal genotype and troublesome genotypes regarding a1 antitrypsin?

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  • Normal: PiMM

- Troublesome: PiZZ

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What is important in tobacco related COPD?

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Total tobacco consumption

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What is 1 pack year equivalent to?

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1 pack a day for a year

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What does the BTS guidelines suggest is normal in smoking related COPD?

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> 20 pack year smoking history

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How does FEV1 differ with age?

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It falls continuously and smoothly

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What is the differential diagnosis for COPD?

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  • Asthma
  • Lung cancer
  • Left ventricular failure
  • Fibrosing alveolitis
  • Bronchiectasis
  • TB
  • Recurrent pulmonary emboli
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What is the typical COPD patient?

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Patient 40+ years, smoker/ex smoker, breathless on exertion, cough

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How should someone with COPDs symptoms present?

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Insidious, gradually worsening over the years

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What should be done before making the diagnosis of COPD.
Exclude other possible diagnosis
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What symptoms will COPD patients not have?
The features of variable airflow obstruction of asthma
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What symptoms might a COPD patient present with?
- Breathlessness - Cough and sputum - Wheeze - Weight loss - Peripheral oedema
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When might a COPD patient be breathless?
- It will have little variation and a gradual onset - Climbing hills, stairs with loads or while hurrying - Walking on the flat with contemporaries - Gardening - Housework - Dressing and washing - At rest
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How might the cough and sputum of a COPD patient present?
- Long history of smokers cough - Clear or mucoid sputum - Early morning winter months - All day winter months - All day and all year
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If there is haemoptysis, what should be considered?
- Lung cancer - TB - Bronchiectasis
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When do COPD patients typically present with wheeze?
Typically on exertion
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What does weight loss indicate?
Severe disease
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What does peripheral oedema suggest?
- Cor pulmonale - Severe disease - Respiratory failure
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What might be found in the past medical history of someone with COPD?
- Asthma as a child - Respiratory diseases - Ischaemic heart disease
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What must you ask about in relation to drugs when taking a history?
- List of current inhalers and the doses | - Previous medications and effects on breathing
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What is important to ask about in personal and social history?
- Occupation | - Smoking history
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What signs might be present in a COPD patient?
- Breathlessness when entering clinic or undressing - Pursed lip breathing - Use of accessory muscles - Cyanosis - CO2 flap - Effects of steroids (tissue skin, bruising, Cushingoid)
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What might you find on examination of a COPD patient?
- Barrel chest, decreased expansion - Laryngeal descent - Paradoxial movement of ribs and abdomen - Decreased cardiac dullness to percussion - Decreased breath sounds - Prolonged expiration with wheeze - Palpable liver - Cor pulmonale
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What investigations should be conducted before diagnosing COPD?
- Spirometry - Full pulmonary function testing - Lung volumes - Carbon monoxide gas transfer - Reversibility to bronchodilators and oral corticosteroids
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What investigations are useful in diagnosing COPD?
- Chest radiograph - Blood gases - Full blood count - ECG - Sputum
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In spirometry results what does a normal FEV1 indicate?
Effectively rules out COPD
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What spirometry results would indicate COPD?
FEV1 <80% predicted with FEV1/FVC ratio <70%
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What are you looking for when carrying out full pulmonary function testing?
Emphysema
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What does lung volumes involve in pulmonary function testing?
- Gas trapping - Increased residual volume - Increased total lung capacity - RV/TLC >30%
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What does carbon monoxide gas transfer involve in pulmonary function testing?
- Decreased gas transfer - Decreased TLCO - Decreased KCO (tissue destruction)
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What can de demonstrated by spirometry?
Fixed airflow obstruction
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How should a COPD patient respond to bronchodilators?
Minimal reversibility
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How should a COPD patient respond to oral corticosteroids?
Minimal response
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What is the method used when testing response to oral corticosteroids?
- 30-40mg Prednisolone daily for 2 weeks (0.6mg/kg) - Measure baseline and final FEV1 - Increasing trend not to do trials of steroids though
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What does significant bronchodilator/steroid response suggest?
Asthma or asthmatic component
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What does response to bronchodilator/steroids not suggest?
Does not predict symptomatic benefit from long term use
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What may be observed on a chest radiograph?
- Hyperinflated lung fields - Flattened diaphragms - Lucent lung fields - Bullae
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What are chest radiographs useful in?
- Bronchogenic carcinoma - Interstitial disease - Left ventricular failure
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What might abnormal blood gas results suggest?
- Decreased PaO2 Type I respiratory failure | - Decreased PaO2 and increased PaCO2 Type II respiratory failure
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What might a full blood count show?
Secondary polycythaemia
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What might be identified on an ECG?
- Right axis deviation - P pulmonale - T wave inversion V1-V4
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What might be found on a MC&S sputum test?
- S pneumoniae - H influenzae - M catarrahalis
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What can precipitate an acute exacerbation of COPD?
- Viral/bacterial infection - Sedative drugs - Pneumothorax - Trauma
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How might a patient present with an acute exacerbation of COPD?
- Increased cough - Increased sputum - Increased sputum purulence - Increased shortness of breath - Increased wheeze - Unable to sleep - Increased oedema - Confusion - Drowsiness - Cyanosis - Flapping tremor - Pyrexial - Signs of COPD
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What investigations are useful in diagnosing an acute exacerbation of COPD?
- Chest radiograph - Blood gases - FBC - U&E - Sputum culture
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How should acute exacerbations of COPD be managed?
- Nebulised bronchodilator B2 and anti muscarinic - O2 - Oral/iv corticosteroid - Antibiotics - Diuretic - IV aminophylline - Respiratory stimulant - NIV

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