{"id":9754,"date":"2026-02-25T13:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/respiratory-therapy-copd-facts\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T13:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:52:11","slug":"respiratory-therapy-copd-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/respiratory-therapy-copd-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Respiratory Therapy COPD Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>COPD Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>COPD includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema and causes airflow limitation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Air Trapping<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Air trapping increases lung volumes and reduces ventilation efficiency.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exacerbation Triggers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Infections and irritants commonly trigger COPD flare ups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oxygen Therapy Use<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some COPD patients require long term oxygen therapy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Smoking Impact<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Smoking is the leading cause of COPD worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/respiratory-therapy-disease-facts\">Respiratory Therapy Disease Facts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/respiratory-therapy-patient-assessment\">Respiratory Therapy Patient Assessment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/respiratory-therapy-pharmacology-basics\">Respiratory Therapy Pharmacology Basics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COPD Overview COPD includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema and causes airflow limitation. Air Trapping Air trapping increases lung volumes and reduces ventilation efficiency. Exacerbation Triggers Infections and irritants commonly trigger COPD flare ups. Oxygen Therapy Use Some COPD patients require long term oxygen therapy. Smoking Impact Smoking is the leading cause of COPD worldwide. Related [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[37,36,35],"class_list":["post-9754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-respiratory-therapy","tag-respiratory-therapist","tag-respiratory-therapy","tag-rt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9787,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9754\/revisions\/9787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}