Clear the Air With New COPD Guidelines

February 2026

Updated COPD guidelines suggest starting daily inhalers sooner...to improve symptoms and decrease mortality.

For acute symptom relief in all patients with COPD, continue to prescribe a prn short-acting beta agonist (SABA), such as albuterol...or a short-acting muscarinic antagonist (SAMA), such as ipratropium.

A SABA/SAMA combo can improve symptoms over either product alone...and may mitigate side effects from higher doses of single agents.

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