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18582795

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-6-27
pubmed:abstractText
Exacerbations of COPD have a profound detrimental effect on the patient and impose a significant burden on healthcare resource utilization. Prevention and treatment of exacerbations are major objectives of the clinical management of COPD. For this approach to be successful, clinicians must combine both pharmacologic approaches and non-pharmacologic strategies aimed at improving the patient's disease management. Non-pharmacologic approaches include those that can be incorporated into the office setting as well as intervention strategies that are integrated into the lifelong management of COPD. These strategies include developing a partnership with the patient and their social supports, encouraging and facilitating smoking cessation, immunizations, proper use of supplemental oxygen, and most importantly, giving the patient the tools to manage their illness appropriately. Moreover there is clear evidence of an irrevocable decline in pulmonary function after each exacerbation, usually resulting in reduced physical activity and impaired skeletal muscle function. Not surprisingly, pulmonary rehabilitation after such events has been shown to prevent relapse, improve survival and enhance patients' overall function after acute exacerbations.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0954-6111
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
102 Suppl 1
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
S3-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Targeting the COPD exacerbation.
pubmed:affiliation
Respiratory Division, University Hospitals Leuven, and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't