The management of early COPD - thinking out of the box

On this episode of the Medical Insider COPD podcast, Professor Jadwiga Wedzicha joins Dr Richard Russell to discuss the importance of early intervention in COPD.1 She will explore the use of optimised bronchodilation to improve early symptoms and physical activity,^1,2 what the guidelines recommend when treating patients with milder disease,³ and how HCPs can start making a difference earlier.⁴ Dr Russell will then highlight the important takeaways from a 12-year follow-up study on mortality prediction in COPD,⁵ followed by a social media update on patients’ thoughts about the current COVID-19 pandemic. Don’t miss out on this exciting episode of the Medical Insider COPD podcast!

¹ Buhl R, et al. Adv Ther 2020;37:4175–4189;
² O’Donnell DE, et al. Adv Ther 2020;37:41–60;
³ Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease. Updated 2022. Available here. Last accessed: November 2021;
⁴ Zhou Y, et al. N Engl J Med 2017;377:923–935;
⁵ Athlin A, et al. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis 2021;16:665–675.

Disclosures
Professor Wedzicha reports grants from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi, Genentech, GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis; she also reports meeting expenses from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim and Novartis, and honoraria for an advisory board from Gilead.

Bio:

Professor Jadwiga Wedzicha
Jadwiga Wedzicha is Professor of Respiratory Medicine and Head of the Respiratory Division at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, and Honorary Consultant at Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals. She is a Fellow both of the American Thoracic Society and of the European Respiratory Society (ERS). Professor Wedzicha was Editor-in-Chief of Thorax from 2002 to 2010 and is currently Editor-in-Chief for the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. She was the Lancet ombudsman until 2014, Publications Director for the ERS and has also previously been ERS Guidelines Director.

This series of podcasts are intended for healthcare professionals only.

The Medical Insider COPD podcast series discusses hot topics in the world of COPD with those who know it best, aiming to spread information, debunk myths and improve the lives of patients. The Editorial Board of the Medical Insider COPD podcast is comprised of Professor James Chalmers, the British Lung Foundation Chair of Respiratory Research at the University of Dundee (UK), Professor Michael Dreher, the Head of the Department of Pneumology and Intensive Care Medicine at the University Hospital Aachen (Germany), and the host and moderator, Dr Richard Russell, a Consultant Chest Physician at Lymington New Forest Hospital (UK), a Senior Clinical Researcher at the University of Oxford (UK) and the founding editor of the International Journal of COPD. These series of podcasts have not been peer-reviewed, but have been vetted by the journal’s Editor-in-Chief.