Antibiotic demand for pneumonia and COPD in the top 20 countries showed high global consumption. Researchers conducted a ...

Between 14 days and 1 day out from an acute exacerbation of COPD, a digital inhaler measured significant drops in inhalation ...

Objective Long-term azithromycin treatment effectively prevents acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

Antibiotics. Five studies involving 557 patients evaluated the use of antibiotics during COPD exacerbation. [2] The use of antibiotics reduced the rate of total treatment failures by 46% over placebo.

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

Tiotropium significantly reduces the risk of acute COPD exacerbations, effectively controls symptoms such as dyspnea, and improves exercise tolerance in COPD as maintenance treatment ranging from ...

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

Digital inhalers that allow remote patient monitoring may predict impending exacerbations, or episodes when symptoms of COPD suddenly worsen.

Patients with COPD feel confident in identifying exacerbations but describe them using different language than clinicians, which could make communication less effective, according to survey results ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common disabling disease characterized by progressive airflow obstruction. Great efforts were spent in the development of drugs able to improve ...

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