In: Nursing
A 67-year-old man presents to your office with worsening cough,
sputum production, and shortness of
breath. He is a smoker for the past 50 years. He is known to have
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary
Diseases (COPD). He was in his usual state of health until one week
ago until he got a common cold and
since then he has a hacking cough and increased sputum production.
this is all information I have
1. What are the two major clinical disorders/diseases are
classified as Chronic Obstructive
Pulmonary -Diseases? How do they differ?
2. Which one of the two syndromes above is more predominant in
this patient? What is the
predisposing factors for the syndrome from the scenario?
3. Asthma is considered one of the obstructive disease of
pulmonary diseases, explain the
the pathological mechanism that is responsible for asthma that
causes the asthma attack.