Managing and Preventing COPD

Karen Sutherland, Primary Care Nurse for the Montague Health Centre, explains how Islanders suffering from COPD can manage the disease through Health PEI's Integrated Chronic Disease Management and Prevention Program.

Whether it's learning the correct way to use their puffers, the importance of staying active, breathing techniques or the best postures for deep breathing, COPD sufferers are learning to help themselves. The courses in the program teach the latest information and training in COPD care and are based on Canadian Thoracic Society guidelines designed to improve early diagnosis, prevention, and management of the disease.