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2. Asthma - Treatment and Action Plan | NHLBI, NIH

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   An asthma action plan is a written treatment plan that describes the following: How to identify allergens or triggers to avoid. How to know if you are having an asthma attack and what to do. Which medicines to take and when to take them. When to call your provider or go to the emergency room.

3. 2020 Focused Updates to the Asthma Management Guidelines:...

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   This At-A-Glance Guide describes a treatment management approach based on recommendations from 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.1 Step diagrams from the 2007 Expert Panel Report 3: Guidelines for the ...

4. Asthma - What Is Asthma? - NHLBI, NIH

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   Asthma is a chronic (long-term) condition that affects the airways in the lungs. The airways are tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs. If you have asthma, your airways can become inflamed and narrowed at times. This makes it harder for air to flow out of your airways when you breathe out. About 1 in 13 people in the United States have ...

5. 2020 Focused Updates to the Asthma Management Guidelines

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   Topic Area Updates. The report, released in December 2020 and published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology , contains 19 recommendations addressing six priority topic areas: Using inhaled corticosteroids when needed for recurrent wheezing or persistent asthma. This medicine helps control inflammation, or swelling, in your airways ...

6. 2020 Focused Updates to the Asthma Management Guidelines:...

   www.nhlbi.nih.gov/sites/default/files/publications/Asthma Clinicians Guide 508...

   In studies this treatment consistently reduced asthma exacerbations requiring unscheduled medical visits or systemic corticosteroids and in some studies improved asthma control and quality of life. Reduced exposure to oral corticosteroids and to ICS treatment suggest that the intervention might reduce future corticosteroid-associated harms. •

7. New updates to federal guidelines revamp asthma management

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   The stepwise treatment tables for asthma management also have been updated. Additional resources for health care providers, including the 2020 Focused Updates to the Asthma Management Guidelines clinician’s and at-a-glance guides (with updated stepwise tables), fact sheets on the updated topic areas and FAQs, are available at www.nhlbi.nih ...

8. Asthma Care Quick Reference - NHLBI, NIH

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   EXPERT PANEL REPORT 3. The goal of this asthma care quick reference guide is to help clinicians provide quality care to people who have asthma. Quality asthma care involves not only initial diagnosis and treatment to achieve asthma control, but also long-term, regular follow-up care to maintain control. Asthma control focuses on two domains: (1 ...

9. Asthma Management Guidelines and Your Care - NHLBI, NIH

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   Asthma guidelines are designed by medical experts to improve the care of people living with asthma and also help health care providers make custom treatment plans. This 4-page fact sheet describes how and why the 2020 Focused Updates to the Asthma Managem\ ent Guidelines were developed, provides an overview of the six focus areas, and lists the ...

10. Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma 2007...

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    Using the 1997 EPR 2 guidelines and the 2004 update of EPR 2 as the framework, the expert panel organized the literature review and final guidelines report around four essential components of asthma care, namely: assessment and monitoring, patient education, control of factors contributing to asthma severity, and pharmacologic treatment.

11. Asthma Care Quick Reference: Diagnosing and Managing Asthma

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    Overview. The purpose of the Asthma Care Quick Reference Guide is to improve the quality of care and outcomes for people who have asthma by providing health care providers with the tools and information they need to carry out each of the key steps in appropriately diagnosing, treating, and providing long-term follow-up to people with asthma.