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The appropriate management of asthma and COPD remains challenging despite the availability of effective treatments. It must be acknowledged that merely prescribing the right medication is insufficient...
The primary aim of this review was to establish how to implement sustainable inhaler changes without compromising patient care and disease control in the primary care setting. This includes a review...
The purpose of the spacer device is to act as an intermediary chamber into which a pressurised metered dose inhaler (pMDI) can discharge the drug. This slows down the drug, which is propelled at force...
MART as a regimen works because it allows for automatic self-titration. By its very nature, the patient will take more ICS doses when they are symptomatic and default to baseline (preventer therapy...
Smoking is the single most preventable cause of premature mortality (Department of Health (DH), 1998; 2000). In recent decades, the UK government has introduced a range of initiatives to reduce...
The main goals of COPD treatment include controlling symptoms, and improving exercise capacity and lung function, while preventing and reducing the occurrence of exacerbations, hospital admissions and...
One of the primary symptoms of acute bronchitis is a cough, which can be productive or unproductive. Other symptoms or clinical signs that may suggest lower respiratory tract infection and no...
The revised NICE (2021) guidelines (NG209): Tobacco: preventing uptake, promoting quitting and treating dependence, recommended greater flexibility and clearer guidance in the use of nicotine...
Overreliance on short-acting bronchodilators (SABA) can indicate poor disease control. Three or more days a week with any need for SABA is a pragmatic threshold for uncontrolled asthma (NICE, 2017)....
In exploring what effective rehabilitation would look like, Cheng et al (2021) recommend a comprehensive programme encompassing the promotion of functional recovery, as they note that this has been...
Asthma is an inflammatory condition where the airways have become hyperreactive in response to a trigger (eg house dust mite, pollen, cats, viruses and temperature changes). The inflammatory cascade...
This original research study, published in the journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases, aimed to provide an overview evaluation of the clinical safety of delaying antibiotic commencement for upper...
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