Gerard J. Criner, MD, FACP, FACCP, Chair and Professor of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and Director of the Temple Lung Center, joined the Lungcast podcast published on ConsultantLive to outline the improvements made to the GOLD (Global Initiative for Obstructive Lung Disease) guidelines earlier this year. The updates included interventions like smoking cessation and pulmonary rehabilitation, as well as the heightened importance of spirometry for diagnosis.
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