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2. How To Be Active in Your Treatment Journey With COPD - AOL

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   Early warning signs of COPD include chronic and progressive labored breathing, coughing, coughing up phlegm, chest tightness, and wheezing. 3 These are often mistaken as typical effects of aging ...

3. Buteyko method - Wikipedia

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   Treatments include a series of reduced-breathing exercises that focus on nasal-breathing, breath-holding and relaxation. Advocates of the Buteyko method claim that it can alleviate symptoms and reliance on medication for patients with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and chronic hyperventilation.

4. Flow-restricted, oxygen-powered ventilation device - Wikipedia

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   Note: ( In cases with an apneic patient the best results will be achieved using the Two person bag-valve-mask technique.) Proper training and considerable practice is required to correctly use the FROPVD devices. [3] The main components of flow-restricted, oxygen-powered ventilation devices include An inspiratory pressure safety release valve.

5. Pulmonary drug delivery - Wikipedia

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   Pulmonary drug delivery is mainly utilized for topical applications in the lungs, such as the use of inhaled beta-agonists, corticosteroids and anticholinergic agents for the treatment of asthma and COPD, the use of inhaled mucolytics and antibiotics for the treatment of cystic fibrosis (CT) and respiratory viral infections, [1] and the use of inhaled prostacyclin analogs for the treatment of ...

6. Obstructive lung disease - Wikipedia

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   This can be measured with breathing devices such as a peak flow meter or by spirometry. Most people with COPD have characteristics of emphysema and chronic bronchitis to varying degrees. Asthma being a reversible obstruction of airways is often considered separately, but many COPD patients also have some degree of reversibility in their airways ...

7. Negative pressure ventilator - Wikipedia

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   The Pulmotor is a device developed in the early 1900s which was the forerunner of modern mechanical ventilators. It used pressure from a tank of compressed oxygen to operate a valve system that alternately forced air into and out of a person's airway, using alternating positive and negative air pressure.