Patient's question:
My father is a patient with cor pulmonale, and he has been suffering from this disease for over a year. In the past year, besides coordinating the treatment, the doctor said that in addition to conventional medical treatment, special attention should also be paid to daily life. I would like to ask, how should this disease be cared for in daily life?Doctor's answer:
For patients with cor pulmonale during remission, it is necessary to implement absolute bed rest, continuous low-flow, low-concentration oxygen administration, and irregular blood gas tests of arterial blood during the remission period. Close and meticulous observation of changes in the patient's condition is also required. Moreover, cor pulmonale may lead to multiple occurrences of symptoms such as arrhythmia and heart failure in patients, so during the remission period, diuretics, cardiac stimulants, vasodilators, and antiarrhythmic drugs should be administered to the patient.