Looking for Right Management for Patients Severe COPD associated with NON-CF Bronchiectasis:Where Is Rifht Way to GO?

Recognition of Bronchiectasis among patients with COPD is important because its presence is associated with worse outcomes. Specifically, outpatients with comorbidities and COPD suffer more freguent respiratory exacerbations, higher rates of potentially pathogenetic microorganisms isolated in their sputum, and increased mortality. Intubated intensive care unit (ICU) patients with overlaping bronchiectasis and COPD experience prolonged courses of mechanical ventilation, extended ICU and hospital-of stay, and increased rates of ventilator associated pneumonia. In addition to prognostication and risk startification…