Abstract

COPD currently is considered the 11th leading cause of disability worldwide. Current projectionssuggest that by the year 2020, COPD will be the 5^th leading cause of disability worldwide, behind only ischemic heart disease, major depression, traffic accidents, and cerebrovascular disease. The research students will attend ward rounds on a daily basis and collect cases which are under inclusion criteria. The patients will be randomly divided into intervention and control group. The intervention group of patients will be analysed. Majority of the patients came with complaints of dry cough, wheezing and breathlessness, and a very few patients had complained of fever. Most of the patients were admitted for exacerbation of COPD. It was observed that the patients with exacerbation of COPD were more in number in intervention group.