Asthma reactive airway disease
- related: Pulmonology
- tags: #literature
Diagnosis
- diagnosis of asthma includes typical symptoms and variable airflow limitation
- repeat PFT when symptomatic or withhold bronchodilators to diagnose patients suspicious for asthma with normal lung function
- diagnosis of asthma in patient already on controller therapy
- eucapnic volutary hypercapnea: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4963444/
Symptoms
- asthma in pregnancy are divided into 3rds
- 1/3 same, 1/3 improved, 1/3 worse
- use forced expiration to elicit wheezing in asthma patients
Assessing Asthma Control
- assess asthma symptoms over 1 month period and PFT every 3 to 6 months
- mild asthma, severe asthma, difficult to treat asthma
Treatment
- inhaled corticosteroid equivalents
- step up or down treatment in patients with increased or decreased symptoms
- asthma step up therapies
- SABA is not recommended for treatment of mild asthma
- use ICS formoterol as initial asthma treatment
- add LAMA to asthma treatment improves lung function but not symptoms
- Moores triad of asthma management
- Management of Life-Threatening Asthma
- acute asthma exacerbation
- long prednisone taper for asthma exacerbation
Literature Notes
Links to this note
- Pulmonology
- COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- related: Pulmonology, Asthma reactive airway disease
- 2022 GINA Report
- related: Asthma reactive airway disease
- long prednisone taper for asthma exacerbation
- related: Endocrine, Asthma reactive airway disease
- Management of Life-Threatening Asthma
- related: Asthma reactive airway disease
- 12 2023 asthma lecture
- related: Asthma reactive airway disease
- add LAMA to asthma treatment improves lung function but not symptoms
- related: Asthma reactive airway disease
- asthma step up therapies
- related: Asthma reactive airway disease
- diagnosis of asthma includes typical symptoms and variable airflow limitation
- related: Asthma reactive airway disease
- diagnosis of asthma in patient already on controller therapy
- related: Asthma reactive airway disease
- inhaled corticosteroid equivalents
- related: Asthma reactive airway disease
- mild asthma, severe asthma, difficult to treat asthma
- related: Asthma reactive airway disease
- Moores triad of asthma management
- related: Asthma reactive airway disease
- repeat PFT when symptomatic or withhold bronchodilators to diagnose patients suspicious for asthma with normal lung function
- related: Asthma reactive airway disease
- SABA is not recommended for treatment of mild asthma
- related: Asthma reactive airway disease
- step up or down treatment in patients with increased or decreased symptoms
- related: Asthma reactive airway disease
- use forced expiration to elicit wheezing in asthma patients
- related: Asthma reactive airway disease
- use ICS formoterol as initial asthma treatment
- related: Asthma reactive airway disease