Prehospital procedures and transport of the diseased with a suspected Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – case description

Wydrych Bartosz, Wydrych Justyna, Kwiecień Krzysztof, Zięba-Szczepaniak Paulina, Nowak-Starz Grażyna. Prehospital procedures and transport of the diseased with a suspected Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – case description. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2019;9(4):388-393. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2639541 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/6830 https://pbn.nauka.gov.pl/sedno-webapp/works/911079 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 1223 (26/01/2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2019; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 28.03.2019. Revised: 30.03.2019. Accepted: 14.04.2019. Prehospital procedures and transport of the diseased with a suspected Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – case description Bartosz Wydrych1,2, Justyna Wydrych3, Krzysztof Kwiecień2, Paulina Zięba-Szczepaniak1, Grażyna Nowak-Starz1 1The Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences 2 The Świętokrzyskie Medical Rescue and Transport Centre in Kielce 3The Zdrowie Medical Centre, ul. Karczówkowska 45, Kielce 25-713 Keywords: COPD, ABCDE scheme, Emergency Response Team Abstract Chronic iterative lung disease is an incurable disease that can be prevented. Available treatment, including cessation of smoking, allows the hindering of its progress. The goal of COPD treatment is to alleviate its symptoms, improve effort tolerance as well as the quality of life, and reduce the risk of progression by reducing the number of exacerbations. Medical Emergency Unit in Kielce accepted a call regarding a 55-year-old man who complains about severe shortness of breath for several hours, not responding to the medicines he has at home. The Basic Emergency Response Team is dispatched to the event In practice, emergency medical team interventions regarding patients reporting dyspnea are not uncommon. In a significant proportion of patients, dyspnea occurs as a result of a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)