End stage COPD

Question 1

What happens to patients with severe COPD regarding oxygenation and ventilation?

Answer 1

Their lungs can no longer support oxygenation and ventilation.

Question 2

What can be difficult to determine in the end stages of COPD?

Answer 2

Whether a patient has an exacerbation that can be resolved or has reached the end of the disease process.

Question 3

What may endotracheal intubation prevent for a patient?

Answer 3

It may make it impossible for a patient to make his or her wishes known.

Question 4

What is the relationship between the frequency of intubation and ventilator weaning?

Answer 4

The more frequently a patient requires intubation and mechanical ventilation, the more difficult ventilator weaning becomes.

Question 5

What effect does apprehension about bleak prospects have on patients with end-stage COPD?

Answer 5

It heightens the patient’s anxiety, escalating cardiac workload and cardiac oxygen consumption.

Question 6

True or False: Patients with end-stage COPD experience a decrease in cardiac workload and oxygen consumption.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

Fill in the blank: Apprehension about bleak prospects heightens the patient’s _______.

Answer 7

anxiety

Question 8

What series of events can potentially be lethal for a patient with end-stage COPD?

Answer 8

Increased anxiety, cardiac workload, and cardiac oxygen consumption.