CTS COPD Guideline One Year Later: Myth and Reality

Jean Bourbeau, MD, MSc, FRCPC, FCAHS
McGill University; Montreal, QC

Session description:

I will be presenting important paradigms in the management of COPD in Canada and abroad. I will be reviewing the adoption of the CTS COPD guideline across the country and tackling the controversies which have been sustained on long-standing opinion despite recent evidence confirming the contrary.

Learning objectives:

At the end of this presentation, attendees will be able to:

• Highlight important paradigms in the management of COPD in Canada and abroad, especially in the real-world setting of patient with recurrent and/or severe exacerbations;
• Describe the responses and adoption across Canada of the CTS COPD Guideline one year later;
• Discuss some of the remaining controversies, new information from the real-world evidence to support the evidence-based clinical practice guideline.