COPD

Severe COPD:

• What Is End Stage COPD? 
• What not to say to end stage COPDers
• People with end stage COPD living longer
• What not to say to end stage COPDers
• 9 Ways To Live Longer With End Stage COPD

Anatomy:

1. How chronic bronchitis affects the lungs
2. How the heart and lungs work together
3. 10 ways COPD affects the heart
4. Common COPD co-morbidities
5. The Natural Progression of COPD
6. Understanding Oxygen and Oxygen Levels
7. What Is Bullous Emphysema?
8. Lungs 101: Learning Basic Lung Sounds

Diagnosis:

1. How Is COPD Diagnosed?
2. What Is An Arterial Blood Gas
3. Breaking Down A Pulmonary Function Test

Causes: 

1. COPD flare-up causes
2. 7 Ways Weather Affects COPD
3. Fetal Origins Hypothesis: Mother's Environment May Cause COPD

Control:

1. 10 tips to live an active life with COPD
2. 6 tips to help you quit smoking
3. Study: Cool Air Makes Breathing Easier
4. Have COPD? Here's 6 Things To Keep Handy
5. 7 COPD Resolutions You Should Keep

Treatment:

1. When to seek help for COPD
2. BiPAP: Helping you live longer and better with COPD 
3. An Apple A Day Could Keep the Doctor Away
4. Would Pulmonary Rehab Benefit You?
5. Inhaler -vs- Nebulizer: Which One Is Better For COPD?
6. What is a COPD treatment plan?
7. 10 popular COPD medicine
8. Study Confirms Benefits Of Inhaled Corticosteroids for COPD
9. What to expect in the emergency room
10. Combination therapy may improve your COPD
11. Soaring cost of COPD inhalers
12. Is it okay to use expired COPD medicine
13. What is Rescue Medicine?
14. What is Controller Medicine?
15. 10 tips to help you afford your COPD medicine
16. How to get help paying for medicine and doctor visits
17. CPAP -vs- BiPAP: What to know
18. Do You Need Oxygen Therapy?
19. Understanding Long Acting Beta Agonists

Equipment:

1. New Inhaler Recommendations (What order do you take them in?)
2. Benefits and Limitations of Nebulizers and Inhalers
3. What is a Nebulizer?
4. What is an inhaler?
5. What is a spacer?
6. How to properly take a breathing treatment
7. How to properly use an inhaler
8. Proper Inhaler Use is Essential
9. 20 Signs You're Using Your Inhaler Correctly

Triggers:

1. 7 COPD winter triggers
2. 10 Summer COPD Triggers

Links:

1. Common COPD co-morbidities
2. The Link Between COPD and Sleep Disorders
3. Links between COPD and Smoking
4. 15 Links Between Asthma and COPD
5. Impact of Genetics on COPD
6. Links Between Poverty and COPD

Facts:

1. Oxygen and COPD: Debunking the Hypoxic Drive Myth (Advance for RT interview with me)
2. Obamacare may benefit COPD patients
3. 11 COPD Advancements to be thankful for

Research:

1. Study: Zithromax may control COPD better than steroids

Living with COPD:

1. My interview with Roxlyn Cole, a COPD patient
2. Mrs. Flowers and her quilt

Personalities:

1. COPD Personalities: Which one are you
2. Martyr COPDers: Too Tough for Treatment

The Myths.

1. Interview: Debunking The Hypoxic Drive Theory
2. Hypoxic Drive: A History of the Myth
3. Hypoxic Drive: Here is your evidence
4. The hypoxic drive theory:  Reality or hoax
5. The hypoxic drive:  Here's the latest theory
6. Alternatives to hypoxic drive theory
7. COPD/ CO2 Retainers: How should they be managed?
8. What evidence disproves hypoxic drive theory?
9. How the hypoxic drive theory was born