Asthma, management

Provide education on self-management or parent education on asthma management and controlling environmental factors that make asthma worse (e.g., allergens and irritants). 

Currie GP, Devereux GS, Lee DKC, Ayres JG. Recent developments in asthma management. BMJ 2005 330 585-589. de Benedictis FM, Selvaggio D. Use of inhaler devices in pediatric asthma. Pediatr Drugs 2000 5 629-638. 

National Heart LaBI. NHLBI/WHO workshop report global strategy for asthma management and prevention. Global initiative for asthma. Bethesda National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, 1995. 

Kozma, C. M., Barghout, V., Slaton, T., Freeh, F., and Reeder, C.E. (2002) A comparison of office-based physician visits for irritable bowel syndrome and for migraine and asthma. Manag. Care Interface. 15, 40-43, 49. 

British Thoracic Society. The British guidelines on asthma management. Thorax 1997 52 Suppl. 1 S1-21. 

Davies R, Leach C, Lipworth B, Shaw R. Asthma management with HFA-BDP (Qvar). Hosp Med 1999 60(4) 263-70. 

O Byrne P, Bateman ED, Bousquet J, Clark T, Ohta K, Paggiaro P et al. From the Global Strategy for Asthma Management and Prevention, Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) 2006. Available from URL http //www.ginasthma.org... 

Kips JC, Peleman RA, and Pauwels RA.The role of theophylline in asthma management. Current Opin Pulmon Med 1999 5 88-92. 

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory condition characterized by bronchial hyper-responsiveness and reversible airway obstruction. Cytokine release from a variety of cell types such as eosinophils, lymphocytes and other inflammatory cells produces epithelial sloughing, plasma protein extravasation from the tracheobronchial microcirculation and airway remodeling. Bronchial mucosal inflammation is present in all patients. The primary goal of asthma management is to maintain control of the disease process by reducing symptoms and improving lung function. 

Skoner DP. Balancing safety and efficacy in pediatric asthma management. Pediatrics 2002 109(Suppl 2) 381-92. 

The Childhood Asthma Management Program Research Group. Long-term effects of budesonide or nedocromil in children with asthma. N Engl J Med 2000 343(15) 1054-63. 

Capra V, Rovati GE. Leukotriene modifiers in asthma management. IDrugs. 2004 7 659-666. 

Sears MR, Lotvall J. Past, present and future—beta2-adrenoceptor agonists in asthma management. Respir Med. 2005 99 152-170. 

Rupp MT, McCallian DJ, Sheth KK, 1997. Developing and marketing a community pharmacy-based asthma management program. J Am Pharm Assoc NS37 694. 

A previous attempt to provide an asthma management service by a different pharmacy was considered an attack on physicians turf by one of the clinics. 

Pauley TR, Magee MJ, Cury JD. Pharmacists-managed physician-directed asthma management program reduces emergency department visits. Ann Pharmacother 29 5. 

Pharmacists have a key role to play in education since inhalation therapy is a vital component of effective asthma management. 

The object of an asthma management plan is to ensure the patient ... 

Help patients discharged from the hospital after an asthma exacerbation to understand their asthma management plan. 

Aggressive use of glucocorticoids, especially by the inhaled route, is the keystone of the moderia stepped approach to asthma management. 

The University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy has been an innovator in disease management for over a decade. One of its more successful Pharmaceutical Care Clinics addresses the community need to improve asthma management so that the overutilization of emergency care is curtailed. The backbone of the clinic is a protocol dictating diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms that were... 

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