CASE DISCUSSION

Bronchial Asthma: Management

Presented from India by Dr. Prashant Saxena

Likes

252967

Views

10,119

7,589

Bookmarks

Case Description

The management of bronchial asthma focuses on controlling and alleviating symptoms to improve a patient's quality of life. This involves two key components: long-term control and quick-relief (rescue) medications. Long-term control medications, often in the form of inhaled corticosteroids or...

Case Summary

Bronchial asthma is on the rise due to environmental and lifestyle changes. Guidelines are updated annually by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), established in 1993 by WHO and NHLBI, emphasizing prevention and management. Goals include minimal symptoms, no sleep disturbance or exercise limitation, normal lung function, preventing flare-ups and deaths, and minimizing side effects, particularly from oral corticosteroids.

Speaker Profile

Dr. Prashant Saxena

Alumni- Liverpool Hospitals

Associate Director & Head, Pulmonology, Critical Care, Fortis Hospital, Delhi

Disclosures

Assimilate requires every individual in a position to control educational content to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies that have occurred within the past 24 months. Ineligible companies are organizations whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. All relevant financial relationships for anyone with the ability to control the content of this educational activity have been reviewed and mitigated. Others involved in the planning of this activity have no relevant financial relationships.