Management of asthma exacerbations in children
| Autor: | Sharon Kling, Debbie A White |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Asthma exacerbations business.industry medicine.drug_class Inhaler General Medicine Emergency department Primary care medicine.disease respiratory tract diseases immune system diseases Wheeze Emergency medicine Medicine Corticosteroid Formoterol medicine.symptom business Asthma medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | South African Medical Journal. 111:710 |
| ISSN: | 2078-5135 0256-9574 |
| DOI: | 10.7196/samj.2021.v111i8.15853 |
| Popis: | Asthma exacerbations are episodes of worsening asthma symptoms with shortness of breath, cough, wheeze and/or tight chest that require an increase in asthma treatment. A major change in the recommendations for managing mild asthma exacerbations is the move away from using inhaled short-acting beta-2 agonists (SABAs) as the sole reliever, toward a combination of a rapid-onset, long-acting beta-2 agonist, formoterol, in combination with an inhaled corticosteroid (ICS), or a SABA used together with an ICS in separate inhalers, in older children and adolescents. In children |
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