new ideas about managing COPD patients
August 2013
You'll hear new ideas about managing COPD patients.
Shorter courses of oral steroids for acute exacerbations. Guidelines recommend 7 to 14 days of oral steroids. But just 5 days is usually enough...even for severe COPD.
Recommend giving ORAL prednisone 40 mg/day for 5 days.
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