Definition COPD is a chronic disease that cannot be cured, but in many cases can be avoided by avoiding risk factors. It is classically divided into 4 stages. Here stage 4 is the final stage. The stages are classified according to various respiratory parameters and the nature of the accompanying symptoms. The revised stages according … End-stage COPD
What can be done about the feeling of suffocation? In the final stage, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) is often accompanied by the subjective feeling of suffocation. This can initially be compensated by a supply of oxygen in higher flow rates. Later, certain body positions in particular help to improve breathing. For example, resting the … What can be done about the feeling of suffocation? | End-stage COPD
Can morphine relieve the symptoms? Morphine belongs to the group of opiates. Nowadays the drug is called morphine. It is not an everyday drug in the treatment concept of COPD. Nowadays, however, it is used as the drug’s ultima ratio, sometimes during inpatient hospital stays, when the acute shortness of breath cannot be controlled in … Can morphine relieve the symptoms? | End-stage COPD
What is life expectancy in the terminal stage? Life expectancy for end-stage COPD depends on other factors such as the presence of other diseases and the presence of risk factors (for example, continued nicotine consumption). The success of the therapy also plays a decisive role. The occurrence of exacerbations also plays a decisive role in … What is life expectancy in the terminal stage? | End-stage COPD
Codeine is an active substance which, like morphine, belongs to the group of opiates. Nowadays it is mainly taken as a substance to relieve irritable cough and as a painkiller. Three opiates – codeine, morphine and thebaine – occur naturally in opium, the dried latex of the opium poppy, and can be extracted from it. … Codeine
Side effects Since the main effects of codeine are caused by an action on the brain, it is not surprising that this substance can have a variety of side effects. Very often (in up to 10%) nausea occurs after ingestion due to the irritation of the vomiting centre in the brain and/or the effect on … Side effects | Codeine
Introduction The gallbladder stores and concentrates the bile that is produced in the liver. If food passes through the stomach into the duodenum, the bile juices are conducted from the gallbladder into the intestine and mixed with the chyme. The digestive enzymes contained, especially lipases, are responsible for fat digestion. If the gallbladder is surgically … Bowel movement after gall bladder surgery
Yellow bowel movement Normally the chair is brown in color. The color is caused by decomposed bile dyes, e.g. bilirubin (yellow), which is later converted to stercobilin (brown). If the intestinal passage is accelerated, as is the case with diarrhea, less stercobilin is produced and the stool becomes lighter/yellowish. Another cause of yellow stool is … Yellow bowel movement | Bowel movement after gall bladder surgery
Hard bowel movement After an operation, especially in the abdomen, the intestinal tract often needs some time to get going again. Especially painkillers, such as opiates, which are administered during the operation, inhibit intestinal movement. Water is removed from the food pulp on its way through the intestine. The longer the intestinal passage takes, the … Hard bowel movement | Bowel movement after gall bladder surgery
Infantile sputum (meconium) is the name given to the first stool of a newborn baby, which is greenish-black in color. Usually babies excrete it within 12 to 48 hours, but for some the excretion occurs in the womb, which can lead to a condition called meconium aspiration syndrome. What is puerperal meconium? Infantile saliva or … Kindspech
Opioids, such as fentanyl, are used in sports as a drug for doping. The aim is not to directly increase performance, but rather to suppress the pain-induced cessation of exercise. Opioids are differentiated into endogenous opioids, which the organism releases in pain situations, and external to guided opioids for therapeutic treatment or abusive treatment in … Opioids
Background Opioids have been used as painkillers for thousands of years. Initially in the form of opium, the dried milky sap of the opium poppy L. (Papaveraceae). In the early 19th century, the pure opium alkaloid morphine was isolated for the first time and later administered with the newly invented hypodermic needle. In the 20th … Opioids: Drug Effects, Side Effects, Dosage and Uses
