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Bronchiectasis
Management of Bronchiectasis
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Medical Management of bronchiectasis:
Antibiotics
Flu vaccine
Bronchodilators
if
airway reversibility
demonstrated – sees if there's any response to bronchodilators drug to see if there's
improves
airflow
Steroid
therapy (especially with ABPA)
Surgery
–
lobectomy
(rare nowadays), single or double
lung transplant
Immunoglobulin
therapy - hypogammaglobulinemia
Physiotherapy management of bronchiectasis:
Education
Daily
airway
clearance
regimen for
life
Breathlessness management
Increase
exercise
tolerance