the American Thoracic Society, and the European Respiratory Society* Description: This guideline is an official statement of the American mend treatment with inhaled bronchodilators (Grade: strong recom- College
The article focuses on the advice issued by the British Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to healthcare professionals concerning the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with long-acting '-agonists (LABA). A review of unpublished trials investigating the ...
2. NICE (2004). Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. NICE clinical guidelines on management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adults in primary and secondary care. Thorax 59(suppl 1):1-232. 3. Shahab L, Jarvis M, Britton J, West R (2006) Prevalence, diagnosis and relation to to...
The 2023 Canadian Thoracic Society (CTS) guidelines for the pharmacological treatment of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were recently published in two journals [1, 2]. T...
View PDF Abstract Recognizing the clinical heterogeneity of COPD suggests a specific therapeutic approach directed by the so-called clinical phenotypes of the disease. The Spanish COPD Guidelines (GesEPOC) is an initiative of SEPAR, which, together with the scientific societies involved in COPD ...
Updated guidelines for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) highlight changes in diagnosis, strategies for deescalation of therapy, options for nonpharmacologic therapies, and an emphasis on the importance of comorbidities for the management of patients with COPD. ...
This revised guidelines and recommendations are applicable to the clinical settings in Taiwan. We expect this guideline to facilitate the diagnosis, treatment and management of patients with COPD by physicians and health care professionals in Taiwan. Adaptations of the materials included herein for educa...
No treatment is available at present that stops the relentless progression of the disease. A better understanding of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie the inflammatory and destructive disease process is now pointing to several new therapeutic targets. Antagonists that block inflammatory ...
A gap exists between guidelines and real-world clinical practice for the management and treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Although this has narrowed in the last decade, there is room for improvement in detection rates, treatment choices and disease monitoring. In practical te...
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