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Show pink puffer pt vs blue bloater.
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What disease do they have in common and how are they different?
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COPD
Pink Puffer- emphysema Blue Bloater- chronic bronchitis |
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What are both diseases caused by?
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smoking
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Which looks more dangerous and which is actually more dangerous?
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pink puffer looks wrose because they are tripoding and puffing away, but blue bloater is worse because they are hypoxic
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WHy is the pink puffer pink?
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because they hyperventilate and it happens more acutely so they aren't adjested to the trouble breathing yet
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Why is the pink puffer puffing?
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so they don;t collapse their flimsy airways when exhaling. Also they are hyperventilating
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Why is the pink puffer so thin>
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because they are cachectic from low CO
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What is cachectic?
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loss of weight and energy in someone who is not trying to lose wight
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Why is the blue bloater blue?
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Can't take in enough oxygen while capillaries are still intact (unlike pink puffers) so there is VQ mismatch and low blood oxygen.
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What is CO like for the blue bloater at first? Why?
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high because the low O2 will cause HR to go up
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What is CO like for the blue bloater later on? Why?
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it decreases because of pulmonary vasoconstriction from VQ mismatch
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What does this decrease in CO later on simulate? What system does it activate?
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it activates the RAAS and simulated heart failure (fluid retention)
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Why is the blue bloater blue?
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not getting enough oxygen
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So whose ABG would be off?
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blue bloaters would be down
pink puffers would be normal although more struggling to breathe |
