New concepts in treatment of chronic persistent asthma. Using a stepwise protocol to control inflammation.

Abstract:

:Asthma continues to cause unacceptably high rates of disability and death, largely because the severity of disease is underestimated and patients are inadequately educated about their disease. When patients understand what happens during an asthma attack and its aftermath, they are more likely to notice important symptoms and to start or increase self-treatment appropriately. Physicians are responsible for teaching patients how to avoid precipitating factors and for discussing and writing down a self-treatment plan to follow in specific circumstances. The British Thoracic Society has suggested a stepwise protocol for drug treatment of asthma. Each patient must be evaluated individually and started at the appropriate step.

journal_name

Postgrad Med

journal_title

Postgraduate medicine

authors

Rumbak MJ

doi

10.1080/00325481.1991.11701034

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1991-09-01 00:00:00

pages

81-4, 89-90

issue

3

eissn

0032-5481

issn

1941-9260

journal_volume

90

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