A 50-year-old woman with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease attends the surgery for review. She continues to smoke 10 cigarettes per day. Her FEV1 ...

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A 50-year-old woman with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease attends the surgery for review. She continues to smoke 10 cigarettes per day. Her FEV1 is 45% predicted. Which intervention is likely to have the greatest impact on slowing disease progression?

Accepted Answer

Smoking cessation support and achieving smoking cessation

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Increasing her Salbutamol inhaler dose

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Adding a long-acting muscarinic antagonist

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Long-term oral steroids

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Long-term oxygen therapy at home

uk-plab-1 MCQ (SBA): COPD – smoking cessation

A 50-year-old woman with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease attends the surgery for review. She continues to smoke 10 cigarettes per day. Her FEV1 is 45% predicted. Which intervention is likely to have the greatest impact on slowing disease progression?