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    Respiratory Disease

    How can home oxygen be adjusted to keep someone with advanced COPD comfortable?
    There’s often a difficult shift in perspective required at some point in a progressive disease. When someone has COPD, then throughout the illness there’s usually a focus on pulmonary function tests, treatments for infection, and efforts to slow the progression of the disease. As COPD reaches advanced stages, these efforts have less effect... read more...
    What can be expected with advanced COPD?
    Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the name of a group of diseases that include emphysema and asthma. The diseases are similar and their treatments often are similar also, especially at the end of life. Each person’s situation is very different, which makes it difficult to predict the progression of a chronic disease, such as... read more...
    My dad is living with several chronic illnesses and was recently hospitalized to manage his symptoms. It feels like a roller coaster – his health seems to change from one day to the next. What can we expect?
    It can be very difficult to predict the course of chronic illnesses such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or congestive heart failure (CHF). Chronic illnesses place energy demands on the body that slowly deplete a person's energy reserve. In the later stages of illness, energy reserve is low, and seemingly small problems like... read more...
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