Preventing exacerbations

Updated international treatment guidelines confirm experts’ views that prevention of COPD exacerbations should be of equal importance to relieving daily symptoms.

INTERNATIONAL treatment guidelines – from the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) – have advised that prevention of exacerbations should be a cornerstone of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) management, placing equal emphasis on the management of future risk as it does on treatment of COPD symptoms.