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General

• Emphysema Treatment
• Oxygen Safety at Home (Patient Education Materials)
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Clinical Practice Guideline (American College of Physicians)
• COPD Management Tools (American Lung Association)
• How Is COPD Treated? (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
• Lung Transplantation
• Lung Transplantation
• Oxygen Therapy (American Lung Association)
• Postural Drainage
• Pulmonary Lobectomy - Slideshow
• Surgery for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (American Thoracic Society)
• Treatment Options and Support - These interactive tools are designed to help patients make informed treatment decisions by providing full disclosure of treatment options, side effects, and outcomes, personalized reports with pros and cons of treatment, and more. (American Lung Association)

  Medications

• Nebulizer Treatments
• Advair - Fluticasone and Salmeterol Oral Inhalation
• Albuterol
• Atrovent - Ipratropium Bromide Oral Inhalation
• Breath Actuated Metered Dose Inhaler (MDI)
• Combivent - Ipratropium and Albuterol (Inhalation-Local)
• Control Drugs for COPD
• COPD Medications (National Jewish Health)
• Flunisolide Oral Inhalation
• Fluticasone (Inhalation-Local)
• Formoterol
• How to Use an Inhaler (No Spacer)
• How to Use an Inhaler (With Spacer)
• Inhaled Steroid Drugs (Consumers Union of U.S)
• Ipratropium (Inhalation)
• Metaproterenol
• Metered Dose Inhaler Use - Slideshow (ADAM)
• Nebulizer Use - Slideshow
• Pirbuterol Acetate Oral Inhalation
• Pulmicort Turbuhaler - Budesonide Inhalation Powder
• Quick-Relief Drugs for COPD
• Salmeterol Oral Inhalation
• Spacer Use - Slideshow
• Spiriva - Tiotropium (Inhalation-Local)
• Spray Canister Metered Dose Inhaler (MDI) (Patient Education Materials)
• Supplemental Oxygen (Oxygen Therapy) (American Lung Association)
• Theophylline
• Triamcinolone Oral Inhalation
• Using Oxygen at Home
• What Do I Need to Know about the Medication I Am Taking? (American Thoracic Society)

  Programs

• Home Exercise Program for Patients with Heart or Lung Conditions - OSU Patient Education Materials
• Pulmonary Rehab as Part of Your Care (OSU Patient Education Materials)
• Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program - Activity Guidelines (OSU Patient Education Materials)
• Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program - Home Exercise Log (OSU Patient Education Materials)
• Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program - Home Exercise Program (OSU Patient Education Materials)
• Pulmonary Rehabilitation (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)