Tag Archives: COPD

Spilling the Box of Pearls: All the Tips on Supplemental Oxygen Management

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Still managing COPD but struggle with the oxygen? I’ve got you…

Chronic Disease Part 2: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

New post on Diabetes Management incoming soon!
Let’s keep warming up with management tips for patients with COPD!

Blow Out the Candles…

If there is any treatment that I feel like gets used in a cookie-cutter fashion, it’s pursed-lip breathing. As much as I hate seeing this technique used for every single patient that has shortness of breath, it does have clinical usefulness. So let’s talk about how to implement pursed-lip breathing properly based on patient presentationContinue reading “Blow Out the Candles…”

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The Duet Device

Have you seen an Acapella Duet before? This is another one of those things I wish I could hand out to maybe half of my patients. A Duet device is a special kind of Positive Expiratory Pressure (PEP) that provides resistive oscillatory pressure to exhalation which promotes increased lung volumes due to re-inflation of collapsedContinue reading “The Duet Device”

Out with the Old, In with the New (Dynamic Hyperinflation)

I can’t even begin to tell you guys how much I love teaching people about lung function in the presence of disease (read: HUGE NERD). Teaching patients how to correct for dynamic hyperinflation is one of those things that I really love teaching. If you remember from a few weeks ago, we talked about howContinue reading “Out with the Old, In with the New (Dynamic Hyperinflation)”

The Second Wave

I know you are hearing this phrase a lot lately. We are hearing all the time that, as things open up around our country and around that world, we may experience a second wave resurgence of new COVID-19 cases. But I’m not referring to a second wave of new COVID-19 patients. There is new researchContinue reading “The Second Wave”