Effective Strategies for Managing Asthma Exacerbations for Precision Medicine

Effective Strategies for Managing Asthma Exacerbations for Precision Medicine

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Precision medicine for managing chronic diseases.

Precision medicine (PM) is an important modern paradigm for combining new types of metrics with big medical datasets to create prediction models for prevention, diagnosis, and specific therapy of chronic diseases. The aim of this paper was to differentiate PM from personalized medicine, to show potential benefits of PM for managing chronic diseases, and to define problems with implementation of...

Managing pediatric asthma exacerbations in the ED.

Jonah Preston, a five-year-old boy with a history of asthma, was brought to triage by his mother early one morning with a chief complaint of “difficulty breathing.” (This case is a composite based on our experience.) Ms. Preston reported that her son had recently been sneezing and had a runny nose. Over night, he’d begun to cough, finally waking her at 5 am complaining that he couldn’t breathe....

Managing childhood asthma: challenge of preventing exacerbations.

Acute episodes of airway obstruction followed by periods of apparent wellness are the main clinical manifestations of the disease for many children with persistent asthma. Although currently available asthma controllers decrease the risk for acute asthma exacerbations, 30% of children taking these medicines still have >or=1 episode requiring oral corticosteroid treatment per year. There is incr...