Below we provide you with a guideline mainly for nurse in the management of acute asthma patient. The role of nurse is taking an important action since nurse has an active role in coordinating effective asthma management and delivering developmentally-appropriate asthma self-management skill. May this guideline help you in your duty.
What you will find [...]
Archives for Asthma
The Role of Nurse in The Acute Asthma Management, a Guideline
2009 Updated Guideline of Acute Asthma
Items such Assessment of Severity, Bronchodilators, Corticosteroids, Additional Therapies, Delivery Devices such a Metered Dose Inhaler, Discharge plan and clear instructions concerning individual asthma risk profile, Clinical Assessment, and Treatment of Acute Asthma (oxygen, anticholinergics, iv magnesium sulfate, aminophylin, intubated actions) are in detailed and clear description.
Asthma Severity and Prevalence: An Ongoing Interaction between Exposure, Hygiene, and Lifestyle
Over the period several diseases have increased in prevalence or severity. Asthma and hay fever suggest a similar time also. This coincident of time frame has been taken to suggest that there could be a common cause. This journal described that these disease are all related to some changes in “cleanlines” or “hygiene” that have [...]
Effect of Height of Corticosteroid Therapy in Asthmatic Children
This medical journal reports the results of investigations in corticosteroid dosage and height growth, corticosteroid therapy and the relation of height growth and skeletal maturation and the course of catch-up growth of height and skeletal maturity after discontinuing corticosteroid treatment.
Daily administration of corticosteroid to children may influence the height as well as skeletal maturation. Severity [...]
