COPD Center
Patient Information

What Services are Available?

At the COPD Center, the following comprehensive clinical services are available:

Patient Services:

• In-depth management by a COPD specialist
• 24-hour access to a physician COPD expert
• Pulmonary fitness program including cardiopulmonary exercise testing, assessment of oxygen needs, and Physical Therapy/Occupational Therapy evaluations and prescriptions
• Extensive pulmonary function testing
• Opportunities for participation in research on new therapies for COPD
• Evaluation/screening for lung volume reduction surgery

Patient Education:

• Educational sessions in COPD treatment and control:
  - Understanding chronic lung disease
  - Nutrition and respiratory disease
  - Tools for fitness
  - Oxygen therapy
  - Coping with illness
  - Respiratory medications
  - Stress reduction
  - COPD self-management
  - Intimacy and chronic lung disease
• "Windpiper's" support group for UCLA patients with COPD
• "Freedom from Smoking" stop smoking seminars/clinics
• "Inspiration" news letter
• "Inspiration" the UCLA COPD Program newsletter

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