慢性阻塞性肺病的治疗和护理.PDFVIP

Management of Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease 慢性阻塞性肺病的治療與護理 How Your Lungs Work The process of moving air in and out of your lungs Breathing is often taken for granted until it becomes is called respiration. A strong wall of muscle an effort to get air into and out of the lungs. It might located below your lungs, the diaphragm, is the be helpful if you understand how air travels through major muscle of respiration. As the diaphragm your respiratory system and where the trouble spots moves down, it creates suction in the chest and can be when you have Chronic Obstructive Lung draws in fresh air, which expands the lungs. Then, Disease (COPD). as this muscle relaxes, it returns to its original position and the air is pushed out of the lungs. If you take a close look at where the air goes when you breathe in and out, you ’ll see that the path What went wrong? resembles a tree turned upside down. This is why If you have chronic bronchitis, airways in your your respiratory system is often referred to as the lungs have become narrow and partly clogged with bronchial tree. mucus. If you have emphysema, some of the air sacs deep in your lungs have been damaged. They Each time you take a breath, air enters through your cannot push out stale air and bring in oxygen to nose or mouth and continues down the trachea, your bloodstream. better known as the windpipe. From there it goes into two sponge-like organs located in your chest What are the symptoms? called the lungs. Air en