COPD and Asthma Exacerbation Management SIMPLIFIED!
Channel: QuickGuidesForMedicine
Date: 2024-01-11

COPD and Asthma exacerbation. Although the majority of these cases can be managed as outpatient, what happens in the more serious cases where there is an obvious risk of respiratory failure or active respiratory failure thereby necessitating hospitalization. 

You always want to begin from the clinical picture: 

- Dyspnea
- Cough (Productive or nonproductive)
- Wheezing
- Fever if there is an underlying trigger by an infectious process

These are typically the things that should cause you to think of respiratory failure and of course previous established history of the diagnosis or previous hospitalizations for the same. 

Now you are called to care for these patients. How should you approach it?

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Chapters: 

00:00 - Introduction 
00:37 - Management 
06:49 - Recap
08:15 - Practice Ca

Check out the video on Respiratory Failure here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhDhe5O5RJk

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