{"id":720,"date":"2017-06-02T10:11:22","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T14:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=720"},"modified":"2017-06-02T10:11:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T14:11:22","slug":"copd-treatment-guidelines-offered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=720","title":{"rendered":"COPD treatment guidelines offered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Medical Letter<\/em> recently published guidelines for treating COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease):<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>For all COPD patients \u2013 Stop smoking.<\/li>\n<li>Patients with mild disease should use a short-acting bronchodilator inhaler as needed: either albuterol (beta agent), or ipatropium (muscarinic agent), or a combination of both (combivent).<\/li>\n<li>Patients with moderate disease should use regular inhaler treatments of a long-acting broncho-dilator &#8211; either a beta, muscarinic or combination agent.<\/li>\n<li>Patients with severe disease should add a daily inhaled steroid to step 3 and consider oxygen therapy.<\/li>\n<li>Pulmonary rehab is a vital therapy for all patients with COPD.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Medical Letter recently published guidelines for treating COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease): For all COPD patients \u2013 Stop smoking. Patients with mild disease should use a short-acting bronchodilator inhaler as needed: either albuterol (beta agent), or ipatropium (muscarinic agent), or a combination of both (combivent). Patients with moderate disease should use regular inhaler treatments of a long-acting broncho-dilator &#8211; either a beta, muscarinic or combination agent. Patients with severe disease should add a daily inhaled steroid to step 3&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=720\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-copd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}