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Asthma

Reducing the environmental impact of inhalers in primary care

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...

Maintenance And Reliever Therapy (MART) for young people with asthma

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...

Seasonal asthma: should it be managed differently?

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...

Understanding personal asthma action plans

The National Review of Asthma Deaths (NRAD) (Royal College of Physicians, 2014) investigated the clinical records of 195 adults and children who died of asthma between February 2012 and January 2013....

Inhaled therapy for asthma

While the intention of this article is to review inhaled therapies, it is also worth considering oral therapies for asthma..

Prescribing inhaled therapy in asthma: health professionals' habits and beliefs

Questionnaires were circulated to delegates attending a series of evening educational meetings around asthma and national guidelines. As there is a growing plethora of combination inhalers, including...

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