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Pink puffer

Last reviewed dd mmm yyyy. Last edited dd mmm yyyy

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Pink puffers have a good respiratory drive.

Features include:

  • purse-lip breathing with intense dyspnoea
  • patient is often thin and elderly
  • little sputum produced
  • oedema and overt heart failure are rare complications

Investigations:

  • blood gases are near normal until pre-terminally
  • there is very severe airways obstruction
  • total lung capacity is increased
  • reduction in transfer factor

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