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COPD Awareness Month November 2017

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the name for a group of lung conditions that cause breathing difficulties. It includes: emphysema – damage to the air sacs in the lungs and chronic bronchitis – long-term inflammation of the airways.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the 3rd leading cause of death in the United States. The disease kills more than 120,000 Americans each year—that’s 1 death every 4 minutes—and causes serious, long-term disability. The number of people with COPD is increasing. More than 12 million people are diagnosed with COPD and an additional 12 million likely have the disease and don’t even know it.

Therefore this November, the title of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s national awareness and education campaign is COPD Learn More Breathe Better.

RELATED HEALTH LIBRARY RESOURCES  
For anyone studying the importance of improving knowledge of and supporting those who suffer from COPD, the Health Library offers numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of  items as well as information on materials recently added to our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.
BOOKS
·      COPD in primary care / by Anita Sharma David Pitchforth, 2010, Oxford: Radcliffe Pub. Also available as an e-book.
·      ABC of COPD / by Graeme P Currie, 2nd edition, 2011, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Also available as an e-book.
·       Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in primary care : all you need to know to manage COPD in your practice / by David Bellamy Rachel Booker, 3rd edition, 2004, London : Class.
·       Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / by Graeme P. Currie, 2009, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
·       Managing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / by Laura Blackler; Christine Jones RN.; Caroline Mooney, 2007, Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley. Also available as an e-book.
·       Fast Facts: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / by William MacNee M. Bradley Drummond, 3rd edition, 2016, Oxford : Health Press Limited.
·       Managing COPD / by Richard E. K. Russell Peter, J Barnes; Paul A Ford, 2012, London: Springer.
JOURNALS
·      Respiratory medicine: COPD update, Amsterdam: Elsevier. [Available in print 2014- 2008. Also available as a Keele ejournal 2005 – 2009 & as an NHS ejournal 2005 – 2008.]
·      COPD, Philadelphia, PA : Taylor & Francis [Available as a Keele ejournal 2004 onwards].
·       International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Auckland, N.Z. : DOVE Medical Press. [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2006 onwards.]
·       European clinical respiratory journal, Järfälla : Co-Action Publishing. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2015 onwards & as a NHS ejournal 2014 onwards.]
·      COPD Research and Practice, BioMed central. [Available as a NHS ejournal 2015 onwards.]
Access more journals via our Journals webpage https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/
JOURNAL ARTICLES
·      Donohue, James F. ; Ganapathy, Vaidyanathan ; Bollu, Vamsi ; Stensland, Michael D. ; Nelson, Lauren M., “Health Status of Patients with Moderate to Severe COPD after Treatment with Nebulized Arformoterol Tartrate or Placebo for 1 Year”, Clinical Therapeutics, 2017, Vol.39 (1), pp.66-74. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
·      Görgens, Sophia Valesca, “COPD”, Chest, 2017, Vol.152 (3), pp.673-673. [Available via Keele ejournals]
·      Ledger, Liz, “COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Report)” Nursing Standard, 2015, Vol.29 (31), p.61. [Available via Keele ejournals]
·         Pauwels, Romain, “COPD: The Scope of the Problem in Europe”, Chest, 2000, Vol. 117 (5), pp.332-335. Available via Keele ejournals]
·      Wilbanks, Sandy, “COPD”, The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 2015, Vol. 11 (4), pp.485-485. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
·       Lindvig, Katrine P. ; Brøchner, Anne C.; Lassen, Annmarie T.; Mikkelsan, Søren; “Prehospital prognosis is difficult in patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease”, Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2017, 2 November, Vol. 25 (106). [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
·       Nissen, Lene; Lindhardt, Tove; “A qualitative study of COPD-patients’ experience of a telemedicine intervention”, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2017, Vol. 107, pp. 11-17. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
PAITENT INFORMATION / PAITENT ADVICE
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - NHS Evidence search with ‘Information for the Public’ filter: https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/Search?om=[{%22ety%22:[%22Information%20for%20the%20Public%22]}]&q=Chronic+obstructive+pulmonary+disease
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