Identifying and Testing for COPD in the Primary Care Setting
b'Credits: 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit\\u2122\\nCME/CE Information and Claim Credit: https://www.pri-med.com/online-education/Podcast/identifying-and-testing-for-copd\\nOverview: \\u201cLung Health Updates for Primary Care Providers: Conversations with NHLBI\\u201d is a series of CME podcast episodes produced by Pri-Med in partnership with Learn More Breathe Better\\xae, a program of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. In this episode on identifying and testing for COPD in primary care, we are joined by Dr. Antonello Punturieri, a Program Officer with NHLBI\\u2019s Division of Lung Diseases, and Dr. Byron Thomashow, Professor Emeritus at Columbia University Medical Center and Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of the COPD Foundation. We\\u2019ll be discussing why primary care providers play such a crucial role in finding COPD cases among patients, the tools to help identify these cases, and the diagnostic criteria that points to starting appropriate treatments.'