A Patient with Chronic Bronchitis Who Has a New Prescription

A patient with chronic bronchitis who has a new prescription for Advair Diskus (combined fluticasone and salmeterol) asks the nurse the purpose of using two drugs. The nurse explains that

A) one drug decreases inflammation, and the other is a bronchodilator.
B) Advair is a combination of long-acting and slow-acting bronchodilators.
C) the combination of two drugs works more quickly in an acute asthma attack.
D) the two drugs work together to block the effects of histamine on the bronchioles.

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