When pupils return to school in September there is a steep rise in children hospitalised with asthma attacks. In the UK a child is admitted to hospital every 20 minutes because of an asthma attack. However, the number of children needing emergency treatment doubles in September compared to Augus...
The child care provider should be provided with and keep on file an asthma action plan for each child with asthma. An asthma action plan lists emergency information, activities or conditions likely to trigger an asthma attack, current medications being taken, medications to be administered by the ...
Topics covered include the symptoms of childhood asthma and its prevalence among children in Great Britain, how nurses can help improve the lives of children with asthma, and the treatment plan for a child who presented to the emergency department with asthma.Pearce, Lynne...
The use of written //www.asthma.org.uk/advice/manage-your-asthma/action-plan/ Severe asthma Severe asthma is defined as “asthma that is uncontrolled, despite adherence with maximal optimised high-dose inhaled corticosteroids with LABA treatment and management of contributory factors, or that require...
(2015) 15050 © 2015 Primary Care Respiratory Society UK/Macmillan Publishers Limited as up to 25–35% of people with asthma may have been misdiagnosed;16–19 however, if symptoms and lung function improve substantially when inhaler technique or adherence are corrected, this may effectively ...
Both content and thematic analyses of the data drawn PRIMARY CARE RESPIRATORY JOURNAL www.thepcrj.org 165 http://www.thepcrj.org Copyright PCRS-UK - reproduction prohibited N Sulaiman et al. Box 2 Interviewer: "Okay. Do any of you have a written asthma action plan or know what a ...
Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK Stephen T. Holgate Subsection Chief of Allergy, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Asthma Institute at UPMC/UPSOM, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Sally Wenzel Department of Pulmonology, University of Groningen...
Childhood Asthma The effective management of asthma involves careful attention to family education and environmental, psychological and other triggers. However, the majority of patients will require drug treatment. The only bronchodilators in common use are β2-agonists and theophylline. In young ...
Working together, you and your patient should prepare a written personal asthma action plan that is medically appropriate and practical. A sample asthma plan is shown in Figure 3. Additional written asthma action plans can be found on several websites, including: www.asthma.org.uk www.nhlbi...
Indeed, a UK study reported that between 1990 and 1998, there was an increase in the prevalence of parent-reported preschool “wheeze ever” (from 16% to 29%), “current wheeze” (from 12% to 26%), “diagnosis of asthma” (from 11% to 19%), and “admission for wheeze” (from 6%...