Volume : VIII, Issue : VIII, August - 2019

A STUDY ON COPD PATIENTS IN TERTIARY CARE TEACHING HOSPITAL.

Beenaboina Venkata Ramana Murthy, Varikuti Aparna

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Aim ;– To Study the Adverse effects, risk factors, treatment pattern of COPD patients in tertiary care teaching hospital. Background:– Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a type of obstructive lung disease characterized by long–term eathing problems and poor airflow. The main symptoms include shortness of eath and cough with sputum production. COPD is a progressive disease, meaning it typically worsens over time. Eventually everyday activities such as walking or getting dressed become difficult. Chronic onchitis and emphysema are older terms used for different types of COPD. The term "chronic onchitis" is still used to define a productive cough that is present for at least three months each year for two years. Materials and methods: An Observational Study at AC Subba reddy Government medical college, Nellore,.duration was 6 months with 108 patients,patients are enrolled in the study based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria Results: Quality of life is a standard of health, comfort, and happiness experienced by an individual or a group. Factor affecting the quality of life include non–compliance, ADR’s, lack of nutritious diet and lack of exercises. So monitoring and adverse drug reactions and management will improve the quality of life to some extent. The QOL of patient suffering from COPD is affected and impact is in the worse in the COPD drugs. Hence the prompt treatment of and early diagnosis of COPD will reduces the disease severity and improve the quality of life. Conclusion: An advanced age (>60 years), poor socioeconomic status, smoking, and moderate to severe forms of the disease may be responsible for this. It is recommended that besides providing an optimum drug treatment that relieves the current symptoms of the disease, attempts should also be made to enable the patient to remain physically self–dependent. In addition,a psycho–social support will also be required to obtain a significant improvement in quality–of–life.

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A STUDY ON COPD PATIENTS IN TERTIARY CARE TEACHING HOSPITAL., Beenaboina Venkata Ramana Murthy, Varikuti Aparna INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-8 | August-2019

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