Current guidelines recommend use of one or more long-acting inhaled bronchodilators for patients with moderate, severe, or very severe COPD. However, the initial choice of long-acting inhaled ...

Background: In contrast to asthma, the indication for bronchodilators prior to bronchoscopy in patients with COPD has not been properly investigated. We therefore performed a randomized ...

Inhalers for COPD provide steroids, bronchodilators, or combination drugs. The three types differ in the mechanism by which the medication is inhaled and have different instructions for use.

Explore strategies for controlling COPD and improving health, with a focus on management and lifestyle changes.

For this reason, oral corticosteroids are used only as a short-term solution for COPD episodes. Corticosteroid medications are sometimes combined with bronchodilator drugs in one inhaler.

Bronchodilator therapy forms the mainstay of treatment for people with COPD. Bronchodilators work by altering the airways’ smooth muscle tone, leading to widening of the airways, which ...

Although there isn’t currently a cure, you can find ways to live with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)—thanks to bronchodilators, steroids, pulmonary rehabilitation, and ...

A new study suggests COPD patients experience improved lung function and breathlessness after direct switch from long-acting bronchodilators or steroid containing combination therapies to ...

“Patients with mild-to-moderate COPD who have low exercise tolerance are likely to experience poor respiratory health outcomes,” the investigators concluded. “Exercise tolerance may be considered one ...

COPD can be managed by proper medications like bronchodilators, oxygen therapy, breathing exercises, quitting smoking and a good diet. Acute exacerbations of COPD cases (AECOPD) need medical ...