Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is one of the cause of mortality and morbidity in worldwide. This study aims to determine the pattern of treatment of bronchodilators with or without corticosteroids and their effects on changes carbon dioxide pressure in blood (PCO2) and oxygen pressure in blood (PO2) in COPD patients of inpatient in RSUD Dr. Moewardi Surakarta January 2016-June 2017. This research is a retrospective descriptive research design, data collecting by tracking medical records patients with 195 samples. The results showed that treatment of COPD patient using single bronchodilator of 30,8%, bronchodilator combination of 57,1%, bronchodilator combination with corticosteroid of 1% and corticosteroid equal to 91,3%.Effect of bronchodilator treatment without corticosteroids on changes in the largest largest PCO2 change of 14.8%, the smallest change in PCO25.9%, the largest PO2 change was 19%, the smallest PO2 change was 5.6%, whereas in patients who received bronchodilator treatment with corticosteroids there was the largest PCO2 change of 87.4%, the smallest PCO2 cha
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