predicting mortality in COPD patient

[MURSE21]

Hello fellow nurses,

My question is on the prognosis of COPD. I was wondering if someone would be able to extrapolate on the assessment of the QMVC, and muscle endurance in relation to the prediction of mortality. I heard that quadriceps dysfunction can be present for COPD patients who are NOT exhibiting respiratory difficulty, low weight, and other co-morbidities.

Any feed back would be great!

[RNperdiem, RN]

The human mortality rate remains unchanged at 100%.

[leslie :-D]

sorry, misread your post.

not a heck of a lot out there, but here's a couple of links:

http://www.medwire-news.md/48/64549/Respiratory/Quadriceps_strength_predicts_COPD_mortality.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17090575

it does seem to hold some prognostic value.

leslie

[MURSE21]

oh alright,

any information on how the QMVC assessment works?

[leslie :-D]

oh alright,

any information on how the QMVC assessment works?

few more links.

first one from chest journal, you need to enlarge the font.

http://www.chestjournal.org/cgi/reprint/123/4/1104.pdf?ck=nck

this one may answer your questions.

Relevance of assessing quadriceps endurance in patients with COPD

http://www.erj.ersjournals.com/cgi/content/full/24/1/129

http://www.thorax.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/60/9/718

good luck.

leslie