Meet the editor

Dr. Ong is a respiratory physician and intensivist with more than twenty years of experience. He is currently the medical director of Chestmed Pte Ltd, Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre, Singapore. He is also the founding and current president of the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Association (Singapore) and is a member of the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) Assembly. He is the principal author

of multiple publications in international peer-reviewed medical journals such as *CHEST*, *European Respiratory Journal*, *American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine*, and *Respiratory Medicine*. He is also the editor of the textbook *Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – Current Concepts and Practice*.

Contents

with Enterprise *by Kian-Chung Ong*

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 5**

**Chapter 3 25**

**Chapter 4 37**

**Chapter 5 47**

**Chapter 6 67**

**Chapter 7 83**

**Chapter 8 93**

Introductory Chapter: Confronting COPD by Merging Experience

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Related to Wood and Other Biomass Smoke: A Different Phenotype or Specific Diseases?

*by Carlos A. Torres-Duque, Felipe Severiche-Bueno* 

*by Biruk Getahun and Abebe Ayalew Bekel*

*by Maha Dardouri and Manel Mallouli*

Nutritional Status and COPD

Patient Directed Music Listening

*and Maria Moța*

*by Ozlem Ediboglu*

*by Annie Heiderscheit*

Work - Related Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

COPD-Related Factors Affect the Quality of Life of Patients

Exercise Training and Pulmonary Rehabilitation in COPD *by Amira Permatasari Tarigan and Fannie Rizki Ananda*

*by Anca Mihaela Hâncu, Florin Mihălțan, Mihaela Ionela Vladu* 

Non-Pharmacological Management of Symptoms during Mechanical Ventilation and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Critical Care:

Mechanical Ventilation for Patients with COPD

*and Mauricio González-García*

## Contents


Preface

This book was produced during a challenging time. One and a half years into a pandemic that has taken the world by surprise, the medical community continues to cope with the travails caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). As countries around the world concentrate their resources to battle this pandemic, there will almost inevitably be collateral damage brought about by friendly fire. Funding for and research in other medical conditions are put aside, as priorities in healthcare expenditure are re-arranged. One such major medical condition likely to incur indirect losses during the current pandemic is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). At the time of this writing, COPD remains the third leading cause of death worldwide and continues to claim more lives than all respiratory tract infections (inclusive of deaths due to the viral pandemic). COPD has been deprived of apposite attention despite its major contribution to the global disease burden and is likely to accede to further diversion of attention and resources due to the current pandemic. In such trying times, I humbly acknowledge the significance of disseminating erudite information on COPD via an

COPD is a disease that is multi-factorial in etiology, effects multi-systemic involvement, and requires multi-modality management. It is difficult to find another respiratory disorder that affects so many individuals in such a multi-dimensional way. In managing COPD, healthcare professionals hail from diverse backgrounds ranging from smoking cessation therapists to statisticians, pharmacists to physiotherapists, respiratory physicians to rehabilitation specialists, investigators to intensivists, and more. Over time, such diversity in unity has led to the development of a widespread community involved in the treatment of COPD. Members of this community from all around the world had contributed to an earlier book by the same publisher titled *Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – Current Concepts and Practice*, a book that has been well received, judging from the number of copies that have been downloaded and read thus far. This current conspectus is an up-to-date codicil to the former book and the present iteration has received contributions from the eclectic

The introductory chapter emphasizes the importance of a global and multidimensional enterprise in confronting COPD, together with merging the old (experience) with the new (technology). Chapters 2 and 3 examine the multifactorial causes leading to the development of COPD. In Chapter 2, the authors emphasize that exposure to tobacco smoke is not necessarily the *sine qua non* of COPD and the disease should not be depicted as self-inflicted, as factors such as air pollution and work-related exposures are major causes of COPD in many parts of the world. The authors compare and contrast heterogeneity of COPD caused by smoke from cigarettes and biomass fuel according to pathogenesis and presentation. The impact of occupational exposures in disease burden and work performance is exposited in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 examines disease-related contributors to health status in COPD with the aim of discovering elements that impact patients' lives the most. Chapter 5 discusses the holistic management of COPD patients including exercise training in the context of pulmonary rehabilitation

community involved in the management of COPD.

open-access manner.
