new ideas about managing COPD patients

August 2013

You'll hear new ideas about managing COPD patients.

Shorter courses of oral steroids for acute exacerbations. Guidelines recommend 10 to 14 days of oral steroids. But just 5 days is usually enough...even for severe COPD.

Recommend giving ORAL prednisone 40 mg/day for 5 days.

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new ideas about managing COPD patients

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