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Making Sense of COPD

ThursdayJuly 2nd11:30 - 12:30224 / 225 M

Ioanna TSILIGIANNI and Jaime CORREIA DE SOUSA

COPD is underdiagnosed and mistreated in primary care due to challenges of objective diagnostic testing; confusion about the relative value of different interventions to the patient and the healthcare system and the accessibility of evidence-based interventions. This workshop will use three innovative primary care teaching tools, grounded in the latest scientific evidence and piloted in six countries, to help you make sense of COPD right care as suggested by the author and to offer personalised self-management support to the patient.At the end of the workshop participants will be able to ; 1. Use a structured approach to personalise COPD self-management support, based on Leventhal's common-sense model 2. Integrate an assessment of and response to the patient's emotional health in the consultation 3. Identify/list the main management tasks involved in caring for a patient with COPD, including pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventionsAfter a brief introductory presentation on the most recent COPD management guidelines, participants will be involved in an ice-breaker activity in which they will be challenged to discuss less consensual aspects of the disease. This will be followed by a role-play session where our COPD Wheel and emotions cards will be used to demonstrate how to engage patients in planning and delivering the right care for them personally, with particular attention to the emotional state. Contextual differences will be explored, depending on the patient’s ‘breathing literacy’ and the availability of interventions in primary care. We will offer French-speaking tables for small group work and make available the teaching materials in French.By the end of the session, participants are expected to be familiar with the COPD Right Care tools and to be able to use them to improve the care provided to people living with COPD.This workshop is designed to help clinicians improve their knowledge about COPD and thereby support them in providing better care for patients living with COPD.