Digital inhalers may help predict occurrence of acute exacerbations of COPD for patients in an ambulatory setting.

The main pharmacological interventions for palliation of breathlessness would be opioids, ie, oromorph and benzodiazepines ...

Research shows that digital inhalers equipped with remote monitoring capabilities may aid in predicting and identifying ...

The FDA recently approved mepolizumab for treating adults with inadequately controlled COPD and an eosinophilic phenotype, ...

It is becoming increasingly recognized that people with COPD have an elevated risk of serious CV events,1 discussed Hanania ...

All these studies and examples have made it clear that COPD exacerbation is an inflammatory event. A group in the UK studied patients at baseline, measured the inflammatory markers in sputum, and ...

Objective To evaluate if observed increased weekend mortality was associated with poorer quality of care for patients admitted to hospital with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) ...

Background The National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2) includes two oxygen saturation scales; the second adjusts target saturations to 88%–92% for those with hypercapnic respiratory failure. Using this ...

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Methods and analyses Acute Exacerbation and Respiratory InfectionS in COPD (AERIS) is a longitudinal epidemiological study to assess how changes in the COPD airway microbiome contribute to the ...

Background Acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD) are characterised by an acute worsening of symptoms beyond the normal day-to-day variability. Pneumonic episodes, ...

J Allergy Clin Immunol 2005;115:1043–8. Wu YX et al. Respiratory Aspergillus colonization was associated with relapse of acute exacerbation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: ...