Caring for Patients with COPD in Corbin, KY

COPD is a chronic progressive respiratory illness that causes airflow limitation, making it difficult to breathe. There is two main types, including chronic bronchitis, which affects the large airways in the lungs, and then emphysema, which affects the air sacs in the lungs.

Some warning signs of of COPD or early on, flare ups is gonna be feeling short of breath, feeling more short of breath when you exert yourself, having a chronic cough or coughing up mucus, more wheezing than normal, no energy through the daytime, but also just having a difficult time in general catching your breath.

The purpose of our COPD clinic is to create a individualized treatment plan and to provide extensive education about the disease. We offer a variety of different treatments, including bronchodilators, inhaled corticosteroids that make it easier for the patient to breathe. We also offer treatment for smoking cessation. We also offer oxygen therapy or non invasive ventilation.

We want patients to understand how to control flare ups, how to be proactive about their flare ups, how to use their inhalers and their nebulizers correctly. We want them to understand what to do when they start having trouble breathing so that they can control it.

Our ultimate goal for the patients at our clinic is to improve their quality of life and help them get back to the activities that they once were comfortable doing.