Pursed Lips Breathing (PLB) in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Authors

  • Suhail Raoof Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Queens Hospital Center Affiliation of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center and School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Jamaica, New York
  • Faroque Ahmad Khan State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA
  • Judith Juliano Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Queens Hospital Center Affiliation of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center and School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Jamaica, New York
  • Qaisar Afzal Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Queens Hospital Center Affiliation of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center and School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Jamaica, New York

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5915/19-1-12826

Keywords:

Obstructive lung disease, emphysema, breathing pattern

Abstract

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5915/19-1-12826

Pursed lips breathing (PLB) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease often gives immediate symptomatic relief from dyspnea by a mechanism that is not well understood. We studied six adult Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients using pursed lips breathing and recorded the following parameters (a) subjective relief from dyspnea graded from mild to maximal. (b) breathing pattern including respiratory rate, tidal volume and total expiration time, (c) specific airways conductance, (d) airway pressures, (e) lung volumes including functional residual capacity, (f) volume of trapped gas. Our study confirms that pursed lips breathing in COPD patients gives (a) symptomatic relief from dyspnea, (b) the breathing pattern is more efficient, (c) airway pressures are increased, (d) there is a significant drop in functional residual capacity during PLB.

Presented at the Islamic Medical Association annual convention, Niagara Falls, New York, 1985

Author Biographies

Suhail Raoof, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Queens Hospital Center Affiliation of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center and School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Jamaica, New York

Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Queens Hospital Center Affiliation of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center and School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Jamaica, New York

M.B.

Faroque Ahmad Khan, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA

Professor of Medicine, SUNY at Stony Brook.

Master American College of Physicians.

Judith Juliano, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Queens Hospital Center Affiliation of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center and School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Jamaica, New York

Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Queens Hospital Center Affiliation of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center and School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Jamaica, New York

R.R.T.

Qaisar Afzal, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Queens Hospital Center Affiliation of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center and School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Jamaica, New York

Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Queens Hospital Center Affiliation of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center and School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Jamaica, New York

M.B.

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Published

1987-01-25

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 1 (1987)

Section

Original Articles

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