Your patient is a? 60-year-old male with an acute exacerbation of COPD. You may consider giving the patient ipratropium? because, in addition to reversing? bronchospasm, it is helpful? in
A) reducing inflammation.
B) drying bronchial secretions.
C) expectoration of mucus.
D) stimulating the respiratory center in the medulla.
Ans: B) drying bronchial secretions.
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