The Future of COPD Treatment and Management: A Multi-disciplinary Care Approach

In this hour-long webinar, a variety of speakers address the current state of COPD care and future approach improvements. A COPD patient opens the event with a discussion of his personal experience and how, in hindsight, he might have changed his communication with his physician in order to address his COPD earlier. Speakers then discuss proactive communication with patients to detect disease earlier and a public health, preventive approach to the disease; best practice approaches to assessing severity of disease through symptom recognition; techniques to support self-management and behavior modification, including involving the patient's family; approaches to improve early diagnosis; removing the guilt and blame from this chronic disease; the role of LABA/LAMAs and step-wise treatments in COPD care; the impact of disease severity on the approach to treatment; most significant advancements in the treatment of COPD; the anticipated release of updated GOLD guidelines and what improvements the physician speakers would like to see in the new publication; and how quickly new guidelines are disseminated and adopted. Questions from the viewing audience were answered before the close of the session.

Note: sound for some portions of the event is dramatically improved with the use of earbuds or headphones.