منابع مشابه
Management of occupational asthma.
The importance of occupational asthma and its management is usefully set in perspective by considering recent trends of increasing asthma incidence, morbidity and mortality in the population at large. The contribution to incidence made by asthma of occupational origin is of the order 20-100 cases per million workers per year; the individual worker's lifetime risk approaching 5% in some industri...
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OBJECTIVES After completing this article, readers should be able to: 1. Identify the major environmental factors and comorbid conditions that affect asthma. 2. Describe the role of a written asthma action plan in the management of asthma. 3. Know how to assess asthma control and adjust therapy appropriately. 4. Discuss the evaluation and management of the child who has an acute exacerbation of ...
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Paediatric asthma best practice not only includes prescribing the correct therapeutic mix based on consensus guidelines, but also reducing therapy once control has been achieved. Clinicians should also be aware that asthma in young children is a heterogeneous entity, and a beneficial response to bronchodilators and/or inhaled steroids is not inevitable. In general, preschool children and infant...
متن کاملManagement of Asthma
Asthma can be regarded as a complex syndrome of reversible airway obstruction characterized by bronchial hyperirritabiity following exposure to various stimuli. Some of the stimuli include extrinsic allergens, viral respiratory infections, and various factors that stimulate irritant receptors in the airways, (eg, vigorous exercise, cold air, cigarette smoke, and air pollutants). The threshold f...
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Step up/down treatment according to disease severity to maintain good control and minimise drugrelated side-effects. Start at the step most fitting to the initial severity of the asthma. Treatment plans and goals should be negotiated with the patient but usual aims would be to minimise impact of symptoms on life, reduce reliance on reliever medication and prevent severe exacerbations. Self-mana...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal for Nurse Practitioners
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1555-4155
DOI: 10.1016/j.nurpra.2016.08.018