COPD Flashcards
Diagnose COPD by FEV1/FVC ratio less than?
70 % or 0.70
what will you pt look like with COPD?
clubbing, barrel chest, chronic cough
percussion=hyperresonace
2 conditions that makeup COPD
Chronic Bronchitis and emphysema
Start them on a bronchodilator
step wise COPD treatment?
SABA or SAMA prn
LABA, LAMA
ICS + LABA or LAMA), ICS + LABA and/LAMA)
Most common cancer in men and women?
Lung cx
Name SABAs?
short-acting- albuterol and levalbuterol acts in 5mins
Name SAMA?
short-acting muscarinic antagonists/ inhaled antimuscarinics preventing bronchodilation by blocking the action of acetylcholine at the muscarinic receptors
(PIUM)
short acting: (6hrs)
ipratropium (atrovent) –> at the event get an IPA so relax the bronchiles
Name LABAs (never prescribe alone)
12-24 hrs long-acting beta agonists
Salmeterol (serevent)
Indacaterol (arcapta neohaler)
Olodaterol (striverdi Respimat)
Name LAMAs?
Long-acting more inhaled anticholinergic
Triotropium (Spiriva) (24hrs)
Elipta, Tudorza Pressair, Seebri Neohaler
Combivent is?
SAMA and SABA
ipratropium/albuterol (6hrs)
Anoro Elipta is?
LAMA + LABA (24hrs)
Name some LABA + ICS?
Advair, Breo, Symbicort
Trelegy
LABA, LAMA and ICS
FEV1/FVC ratio less than 60 we now add?
ICS