In addition, there is a new chapter on the importance of assessing and treating co-morbid disease. The guidelines are a welcome advance in the management of COPD, but need further development to guide the more holistic approach to the management of patients with COPD in primary care....
GOLD COPD guidelines are used to assess how severe a patient’s COPD is, and to establish his or her COPD prognosis. GOLD COPD also has guidelines for the use of spirometry in assessing COPD signs and symptoms.Spirometry TestingA spirometer is a machine that measures how fast air is blown ...
A major revision of the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) guidelines was published in December 2011, which takes account of the fact that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a multi-system disease with effects on t
SummaryBackground According to the GOLD international guidelines, the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) should be proportional to t... Antonio Corrado a c,Andrea Rossi b c - 《Respiratory Medicine》 被引量: 141发表: 2012年 Real-life data in 115 chronic migraine patients ...
[18,36]. Consequently, various national and international guidelines, including those from the WHO, suggest oral amoxicillin as first-line therapy for uncomplicated CAP in previously healthy children who have received their age-appropriate vaccinations and are being treated as outpatients [24,25,26,...
Health care utilization history, GOLD guidelines, and respiratory medication prescriptions in patients with COPD The relationship between prior health care utilization and respiratory medication prescriptions in an unselected population of patients with COPD is not kn... S Joseph,AC Leonard,RJ Panos - ...
thinking better. It makes a lot of sense, but it's one of those instances where you can really improve someone's cognition with an appropriate therapy. So since cognitive impairment is so common with COPD, what do you think about the role of pulmonologists in assessing for cognitive ...
such as secondhand smoke and air pollution. The role of airway hyper-responsiveness as a risk factor for COPD in people who smoke is unclear. However, according to one hypothesis, patients who have airway hyper-reactivity and who smoke are at an increased risk of COPD and an accelerated rate...
Clinical phenotypes of COPD. Identification, definition and implications for guidelines Arch Bronconeumol (2012) M.Zysmanet al. COPD and perception of the new GOLD document in Europe. Workshop from the Société de pneumologie de langue française (SPLF) ...
The presence of these features continues to be an absolute contraindication to LVRS. Such patients randomised to the control group also had poorer prognosis; these clinical characteristics are therefore used within the current transplant guidelines for selection of appropriate patients. ...