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Pocket Guide for asthma management and prevention for adults and children older than 5 years (updated 2020). Summary for primary health care providers, to be used in conjunction with the main GINA report. Difficult-to-treat and severe asthma in adolescent and adult patients. Diagnosis and Management.
Asthma guidelines play an important role in guiding health care providers and patients by providing evidence-based recommendations for asthma management.
This Clinician’s Guide summarizes the 2020 Focused Updates to the Asthma Management Guidelines: A Report from the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Coordinating Committee Expert Panel Working Group to help clinicians integrate the new recommendations into clinical care.
The 2020 Focused Updates to the asthma management guidelines represent the first revision of the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program guidelines in more than 10 years.
First check adherence, inhaler technique, environmental factors, and comorbid conditions. Step up if needed; reassess in 4–6 weeks. Step down if possible (if asthma is well controlled for at least 3 consecutive months) Consult with asthma specialist if Step 3 or higher is required.
The four essential components of asthma management are patient education, minimizing exposure to asthma triggers, monitoring for changes in symptoms or lung function, and pharmacologic therapy. This overview topic presents the goals and components of asthma management.
Asthma is much more complex than indicated in the Expert Panel Report: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma (EPR-1), 1 released in 1991, which characterized asthma as an inflammatory disease that is responsive to corticosteroids.
Asthma Guidelines Update 2020 - Diagnosis and Management. The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) of the NIH has updated its guideline recommendations for diagnosis and treatment of asthma patients.
Using the Grading Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation platform, 2 the panel made 19 recommendations across six topic areas: intermittent inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) therapy, long-acting muscarinic antagonist (LAMA) therapy, indoor allergen-mitigation strategies, immunotherapy, fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) testing,...
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) published asthma management guidelines in 1991 and 2007. In 2020, the NHLBI released an update focusing on six priority topics.