Asthma control and bronchodilator response

Bronchodilator treatment and deaths from asthma: case-control study.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between bronchodilator treatment and death from asthma. DESIGN Case-control study. SETTING 33 health authorities or health boards in Great Britain. PARTICIPANTS 532 patients under age 65 who died from asthma and 532 controls with a hospital admission for asthma matched for period, age, and area. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Odds ratios for deaths from a...

Evaluating the bronchodilator response in elderly who have asthma.

Bronchodilator, Terbutaline, in Asthma

subnormal responses found in patients given interriittent COT ticosteroid therapy by Malone et al. (1970). This finding, together with the satisfactory clinical response in these patients with severe disease, suggests that a therapeutic trial of depot tetracosactrin in a dose of 0-5 mg twice weekly should be considered for the control of disease requiring steroid therapy over a prolonged period...

Utility of bronchodilator response for asthma diagnosis in Latino preschoolers.

BACKGROUND Asthma diagnosis in preschoolers is mostly based on clinical evidence, but a bronchodilator response could be used to help confirm the diagnosis. The objective of this study is to evaluate the utility of bronchodilator response for asthma diagnosis in preschoolers by using spirometry standardised for this specific age group. METHODS A standardised spirometry was performed before an...

Breathing therapies and bronchodilator use in asthma.

T reatments involving the manipulation of breathing are commonly used in routine practice by physiotherapists and other practitioners in a variety of clinical settings yet, despite decades of use, there is no robust evidence base to confirm the effectiveness of these activities. Practical and logistic difficulties exist in the design and execution of the randomised controlled clinical trials re...