Daijiworld News Network - Mangalore (VM)

Mangalore, Jan 9: Video-conferencing programme, the one of its kind was held under the aegis of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM), Mangalore City Chapter at City on Saturday. Brown University professor of medicine Sidney S Bradman delivered a live lecture on the new dimensions in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) management.
 
Having Mumbai as the centre, Prof Bradman interacted with physicians and medical students from across the country. Practitioners from Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai and also Mangalore clarified their doubts with regard to the topic through video-conferencing.
 
Focusing on the refined definition of the typical lung disease, Bradman said, COPD is an event characterised by a case in which the patients baseline dyspnea, cough and/or sputum beyond day-to-day variability is sufficient to warrant a change in management.
 
Delineating on the three different levels of COPD, the professor said that the first level of the disease can be treated at home, while the second level requires hospitalisation. Only the last phase leads to respiratory failure, which is in fact a critical one, he added.
 
Bradman said, viruses, bacteria, atypical bacteria in addition to some other aspects are the major causative agents in COPD exacerbations. "While viruses form 30 per cent of the causative factors, bacteria cause 40 to 50 per cent of the total share. Atypical bacteria form only 5 to 10 per cent of the total causative aspects, while the remaining factors form 10 to 25 per cent of the cause," he explained.