Base COPD treatment on symptoms, not spirometry.

Focuses on a study by physician Sanjay Sethi which stressed that treatment decisions in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) should be driven by the patients' symptoms, not by the classic spirometry measure of forced expiratory volume. Measurement tools that help clinicians evaluate their COPD patients' symptoms and therapeutic needs; Basis of COPD treatment; Treatments available, including vaccination and use a short-acting bronchodilator.