Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by airflow limitation that is not fully reversible. An importance factor in exercise limitation is ventilator is ventilator disturbance because of airflow limitation and increase work of breathing in the diaphragm. Respiratory muscle dysfunction contribute to dyspnoea and the onset of hypercapnea. This reduction in peripheral and res…
We reviewed 42 patients (36 males, 6 females) with (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases) COPD that hospitalized in Pulmonology Department Hospital during February-June and October-December 1994, in spite of 18.5 percent among them were admitted through emergency unit. Fifteen patients (35.7 percent) were as referred patients. Twenty two patients were for the first time hospitalization, 16 Pa…