PPP114 - Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) with Dr Eli Dabscheck and Dr Johnson George
Kristin spoke with Dr Eli Dabscheck and Dr Johnson George about all things Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) including:
Risk factors
Management
Exacerbations of COPD and the issues around the appropriate use of antimicrobials in this situation
The Therapeutic Guidelines and COPD-X Guideline recommendations
Asthma and COPD overlap
The benefits of medication reviews and COPD action plans
Further reading and resources:
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Clinical Care Standard:
COPD-X Guidelines: https://copdx.org.au/copd-x-plan/
Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) https://goldcopd.org/2025-gold-report/
Llor et al, 2022, Are short courses of antibiotic therapy as effective as standard courses for COPD exacerbations? A systematic review and meta-analysis, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pupt.2022.102111, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1094553922000025
Pulakka A, Risnes K, Metsälä J, Alenius S, Heikkilä K, Nilsen SM, Näsänen-Gilmore P, Haaramo P, Gissler M, Opdahl S, Kajantie E. Preterm birth and asthma and COPD in adulthood: a nationwide register study from two Nordic countries. Eur Respir J. 2023 Jun 22;61(6):2201763. doi: 10.1183/13993003.01763-2022. PMID: 36990472; PMCID: PMC10285109. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36990472/
This education has been approved as a Lung Learning Peer Reviewed
Activity. It can be viewed at https://www.lunglearninghub.com.au
Note that guidelines and recommendations continue to change over time, this podcast was recorded in April 2021. Please consider the relevance and recency of information provided.
