COPD: What Really Works? A Best Practices Workshop for Primary Care

This intensive 1-day hands-on workshop will cover best practices in COPD management. By creating an experimental learning environment through video and interactive lectures, facilitated case-studies and hands-on sessions on proper spirometry techniques, attendees will leave the course with practical skills and knowledge that can positively impact the quality of life and outcome of their patients with COPD.

Topics include:

• Treatment Strategies To Improve Quality of Life
• Performing Spirometry
• Coding and Interpretation of Spirometry
• Proper Metered-Dose Inhaler Techniques

Learn from a multidisciplinary course faculty consisting of board-certified pulmonary and primary care specialists, advance practice nurses, respiratory therapists, and certified pulmonary function technologists.

Who should attend?

• Family medicine physicians
• Internal medicine physicians
• Advance practice nurses
• Physician assistants

"This course was an excellent workshop on best practices related to the care of the patient with COPD. It was full of helpful resources for patient education. The interactive and hands-on portions were well developed and facilitated the learning of practical skills and knowledge in working with patients with COPD. If you work with any patients with COPD, do not miss this course!"

Patricia Keane, PhD, CNP
Family Nurse Practitioner
Mount Vernon, OH
Attendee, September 26, 2009, Northbrook, IL

Sponsored by the American College of Chest Physicians and the American Academy of Nurse Practioners.
Supported by unrestriced educational grants from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc., and GlaxoSmithKline.

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