ausgebrannter COPD

English translation: terminal/end-stage COPD

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German term or phrase:ausgebrannte COPD
English translation:terminal/end-stage COPD
Entered by: Steffen Walter

08:15 Dec 10, 2019
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Medical - Medical (general) / COPD
German term or phrase: ausgebrannter COPD
"Zum Weaning bei ausgebrannter COPD erfolgte am 09.05. die dilatative Tracheotomie."

This patient had a dilation tracheostomy to be weaned from mechanical ventilation... what is the term "ausgebrannter" in this context?
elizabeth_med
France
Local time: 12:31
terminal/end-stage COPD
Explanation:
This seems to be "medicalese" to refer to the end stage of COPD.

See, for example,

https://www.laekh.de/images/Hessisches_Aerzteblatt/2019/06_2... (p. 22)
"Derweil ist im Nebenraum ein kachektischer, vorgealtert wirkender Patient mit ausgebrannter COPD, der in immer kürzer werdenden Abständen mit schwerer Luftnot zu uns kommt, mit einer Cortisonstoßtherapie und Inhalationen mit Atrovent und Sultanol durch das Gröbste hindurchmanövriert worden."

https://www.osp-stuttgart.de/files/osp_site/content/grafiken... (p. 6)
"Die Versorgung von Patienten in der Terminalphase einer unheilbaren Erkrankung (Tumorleiden, Herzinsuffizienz, ausgebrannte COPD etc.) kann prinzipiell jeden Notarzt treffen"

See also https://www.healthline.com/health/copd/end-stage-copd
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Local time: 12:31
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3 +5terminal/end-stage COPD
Steffen Walter
2cauterized/cauterised
Ramey Rieger (X)


  

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cauterized/cauterised


Explanation:
I would think low CL
Depending on the English variation

Ramey Rieger (X)
Germany
Local time: 12:31
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PRO pts in category: 95
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ausgebrannte COPD
terminal/end-stage COPD


Explanation:
This seems to be "medicalese" to refer to the end stage of COPD.

See, for example,

https://www.laekh.de/images/Hessisches_Aerzteblatt/2019/06_2... (p. 22)
"Derweil ist im Nebenraum ein kachektischer, vorgealtert wirkender Patient mit ausgebrannter COPD, der in immer kürzer werdenden Abständen mit schwerer Luftnot zu uns kommt, mit einer Cortisonstoßtherapie und Inhalationen mit Atrovent und Sultanol durch das Gröbste hindurchmanövriert worden."

https://www.osp-stuttgart.de/files/osp_site/content/grafiken... (p. 6)
"Die Versorgung von Patienten in der Terminalphase einer unheilbaren Erkrankung (Tumorleiden, Herzinsuffizienz, ausgebrannte COPD etc.) kann prinzipiell jeden Notarzt treffen"

See also https://www.healthline.com/health/copd/end-stage-copd

Steffen Walter
Germany
Local time: 12:31
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Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 531
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agree  Susanne Schiewe
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agree  Anne Schulz
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agree  Ramey Rieger (X): Learned something, thanks!
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  -> I did, too! Didn't know this term before.

agree  Lirka
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agree  Barbara Schmidt, M.A. (X): agree
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