Smoking Cessation In Copd

• According to WHO By reducing risk factors, monitoring disease process and by managing exacerbations CO, PD can be effectively manage. Acute exacerbations of signs and symptoms of COPD, impair patients' quality of life and decrease their health status. Appropriate treatment and measures to prevent further exacerbations should be implemented as quickly as possible. Spirometry is the gold standard as it is the most standardized, way of measuring airflow limitation less than 80% confirms the presence of airflow obstruction. Smoking cessation is the single most effective and cost-effective way to reduce the risk of developing COPD and stop its progression. WHO also noted that health education assist individuals in improving skills and ability
to cope with illness. Bronchodilator are the center of symptomatic management of COPD. Regular treatment with inhaled steroids should be given only for symptomatic patients with COPD and the chronic steroids use should be avoided because of an unfavorable benefit-risk ratio. The most common causes of an exacerbation COPD are infection of the upper respiratory and air pollution. Inhaled bronchodilators, antibiotic treatment Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NIPPV) improves blood gas and pH as well decrease the length of hospital stay.