COPD Management News and Views

Find out about the new range of portable spirometers from Axis-Shield UK. Spirometry is the single best diagnostic test for patients with suspected COPD.

Guidance for running controls on the i-STAT

If you’re looking for up-to-date, practical information on how to manage your COPD patients then the COPD Training Day at the University of Birmingham could be what you’re looking for.

The latest version of the i-STAT analyser CLEW software will be sent out week commencing 25th May 2009.

Leatherhead Community Assessment Hospital shows way forward for effective COPD care in the community
By Julie Ricketts, Lead Nurse, Leatherhead Community Assessment Hospital

Read how eight of the UK’s leading respiratory nurses were recently trained in best practice for taking ear lobe blood samples at the Education for Health National Respiratory Training Centre (NRTC) in Warwick.

Read how the NHS could save in excess of £8 million a year and reduce the number of COPD patients admitted for emergency treatment by up to 50 per cent, if the correct investments were made in diagnostic devices at a primary care level.