Palliative Care in COPD

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CASE STUDY 2
Mrs Brown wants to undergo immediate acute treatment because she has the chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which is the chronic life-limiting disease characterised
by the persistent airflow blockade as well as progressive dyspnea (Tavares, Jarrett, Hunt &
Wilkinson, 2017). COPD is also linked with the nervousness, depression, and lack of energy,
anorexia as well as inconvenience (Hadfield et al., 2012). The discussion and conversation
between the patient and the nursing care team ensure a palliative care plan based on patient
preferences. Therefore, supportive and palliative care could promote the active managing of
these patients and acute care (National Hospital Care Committee and Specialist Palliative Care
Services Committee, 2002).
The palliative care approach takes into account the patient's past life experiences and
current adaptations to their situation, emphasising open and sensitive communication and
alleviating pain. This approach of palliative care is the focus of is to prevent and alleviate
suffering through early identification (Bai et al., 2017). However, patients with severe COPD
may experience a very poor quality of life and are generally relatively unfavourable. The
therapeutic relationship is critical to assessing the need for supportive and palliative care
(Crawford, 2010). Due to the deterioration of Mrs Brown's condition, she withdrew from most
activities. She feels that her quality of life is very poor now and she is afraid of the future.
The specified role of specialist nurses has been demonstrated to advance care satisfaction,
in addition, improve patient training, but is not effective in reducing the acute exacerbations.
Though, specialist outreach breathing care has not been confirmed for patients with severe
illness. Some patients, as well as caregivers, will be benefited from the assurance and
supervision that clinicians, as well as specialist nurses, could provide. Nevertheless, for
numerous people, when communal care with major palliative factors is considered more suitable,

CASE STUDY 3
there will be one point. Determining this transition opinion requires the experience, sensitivity as
well as open communication between hospital clinicians and general practitioners. When this is
achieved, patients and caregivers will not be misplaced in the community, as long-term support
programs are important (Momen, Hadfield, Kuhn, Smith & Barclay, 2012).
The usage of programs, for instance, pulmonary rehabilitation as well as outreach nurses
could improve the certain quality of the life of the patients with moderate COPD. Recognising
the necessity for the supportive care initially in the palliative management cycle may help Mrs
Brown as well as her family solve problems with treatment options and may help them better
cope with disease progression. More and more people recognise that the patients with the non-
malignant, incurable, life-limiting diseases require supportive as well as palliative care.
Nevertheless, there are presently very few specialist facilities available (Harris et al. 2017).
One of the most important somatic techniques for palliative treatment is treatment of
hypothermia. When they reach the palliative sight, most patients get the widest treatment for
bronchitis and should recover from aspiration aspiration. If they do not, they should support a
group of long-acting experimental drugs, inhaled with long-acting stimulants and hills.
Theophylline may be useful in some patients, but it has a restricted registry and many forms of
cooperation, which may limit its use. Most patients in the later stages of the disease will be
limited to pulmonary recovery and regardless of whether these patients work in the network, it
will be difficult to pay attention to the program. Other non-medical hoods can be given, for
example, jaw systems, air humidification and barrier-free representation (Lilly & Senderovich,
2016).
Since depression is common in patients with COPD, it is considered as the most
important strategy to dynamically seek the diagnosis in addition actively treating the condition.