2021 Guideline for the Management of COPD Exacerbations: Emergency Medicine Association of Turkey (EMAT) / Turkish Thoracic Society (TTS) Clinical Practice Guideline Task Force

Nurettin Özgür Dogan¹, Yelda Varol², Nurdan Köktürk³, Ersin Aksay⁴, Aylin Özgen Alpaydin⁵, Şeref Kerem Çorbacıoğlu⁶, Gökhan Aksel⁷, Ayşe Baha⁸, Haldun Akoğlu⁹, Sevilay Karahan¹⁰, Elif Şen¹¹, Begüm Ergan⁵, Başak Bayram⁴, Serkan Yılmaz¹, Alev Gürgün¹², Mehmet Polatlı^13
1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey
² Department of Pulmonology, Dr. Suat Seren Chest Diseases and Chest Surgery Training and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, İzmir, Turkey
³ Department of Pulmonology, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, Turkey
⁵ Department of Pulmonology, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, Turkey
⁶ Department of Emergency Medicine, Keçiören Training and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Ankara, Turkey
⁷ Department of Emergency Medicine, Ümraniye Training and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, İstanbul, Turkey
⁸ Department of Pulmonology, Near East University, Nicosia, TRNC
⁹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Marmara University, İstanbul, Turkey
¹⁰ Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
¹¹ Department of Pulmonology, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
¹² Department of Pulmonology, Faculty of Medicine, Ege University, İzmir, Turkey
¹³ Department of Pulmonology, Faculty of Medicine, Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Aydın, Turkey

Correspondence Address:
Prof. Nurettin Özgür Dogan
Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli
Turkey

Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None

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DOI: 10.4103/2452-2473.329630