1.10. Literature review In 2003, a study was conducted to measure the effects of individual self-management education on clinical, biological, and adherence outcomes in asthma, using a prospective, randomized controlled trial of 65 adults with mild-to-moderate asthma, they examined whether an educational self-management intervention would improve adherence to inhaled corticosteroid therapy, decrease markers of airway inflammation, and improve clinical control [34]. Peak flow, symptoms, and adherence were monitored for 7 weeks. After a 1-week run-in, subjects were assigned randomly to either the educational intervention or control group.…
Assessment Task Two Case Study Question 1 Mr. Harding has a number of ‘pre-morbid’ chronic conditions that may be impacting on his admission and the care you will need to provide. Choose two (2) of Mr. Harding’s chronic diseases, explain the pathophysiology. What organs are affected by each disorder? (20 marks/10 per disorder) Asthma Asthma is a chronic syndrome related to the inflamed airways of the lungs (Rogers 2010).…
Journal Critique Asthma Interventions in a School Through Policy and Practices Change The article Sustaining School-Based Asthma Interventions through Policy and Practice Change by Carpenter, Lachance, Wilkin, and Clark, (2013), studied the importance of the policy and practice change in the intervention of asthma in schools in order to implement a standardized asthma action plan with parental consent. Changes in school policies and practices to sustain school-based programs were observed through the Childhood Asthma Linkages in Missouri (CALM). However, according to Lachance et al (2013), sustaining school-based programs can be challenging. The article explains the toll that asthma takes on children,…
Asthma: An Annotated Bibliography America Breathing Easier 2010: CDC’s National Asthma Control Program AT A GLANCE E. (n.d) Retrieved March 16, 2015from http://www.cdc.gov/asthma/aag/2010/ataglance2010.pdf The Center for Disease and Control Prevention is national asthma control program at a glance. This website gave the information about how to improving the quality of life and reducing the death and cost that impact on U.S. population.…
The person I chose to interview was Sam Smith, who is a 22 year-old female who was been diagnosed asthma. I had a list of questions for Sam and was interested in the ways that she would respond and what insight she could give me as an outsider looking in on the topic of asthma. Playing basketball with Sam I could easily see she struggled when it can times to do sprints, but I did not have a full understanding of why. Here are a few the questions I asked her to get a better understanding of the disease. Q: When were you first diagnoses with asthma?…
Asthma Treatment and Management One asthma treatment does not fit all. Brian’s current problem is corticosteroid refill such as Asmanex or Advair and avoiding asthma triggers such as smoking. That will fix the problem. However, a stepwise approach to asthma management is important and the current guidelines is using the stepwise approach.…
With new agents reported each year for occupational asthma, more than 400 agents have been recognized to cause occupational asthma (Dumas, Laurent, Bousquet, Metspalu, Milani, Kauffmann, &Moual, 2014:648). The role of repeated low-to-moderate exposure to irritants in the onset of asthma has been found to contribute to the increasing evidence, which has clinical implications as irritants should be enormously considered as potential causative agents (Dumas et al, 2014:655). As a result, there are currently no clinical diagnostic criteria that allow the acknowledgment of new-onset-asthma to low irritant exposure in each individual patient in the workplace (Tarlo, 2013: 4&5).A total of 36 agents were found to cause allergic as well as irritant…
Physical Disabilities: Childhood Asthma I would love to know more about what the children are experiencing when they realize that they have asthma. Personally, I would like to know what causes the breathing tube to tighten, swell between the airways, and why mucus forms within the individual. I am curious to know if the parents feel overwhelmed when having a child with asthma due to the constant communication with doctors. It makes me feel gratified when the author stated that the individual is capable of preforming all necessary tasks.…
Facing Exercise-Induced Asthma Exercise-induced asthma is a major obstacle for athletes who suffer from it. Some, face this and regular asthma, making for a real challenge. Symptoms include chest tightness, wheezing, coughing and labored breathing which are triggered from exercising. People are not always born with exercise-induced asthma, but may develop it at some point in their lives.…
There is no cure for asthma. However, there are many things that you can do in order to help your child get asthma relief. Below is a list of things that you can do to help your child reduce his or her asthma symptoms: Pay Attention To Triggers There are many things that can trigger asthma symptoms. Sulfites, which are chemicals found in shrimp, fruit and dried potatoes, can worsen asthma.…
I would approach the parents. Not just parents whose children are suffering from asthma but also to grown adults that suffer from asthma. I would influence them the importance of decreasing air populations and how clean air can not only help asthmatics, but future children who be apart of the world. I would paint a picture where asthma can be overcome and try to make it reality for them. Moreover, listen to the people I’m interacting with and let the know they are being heard.…
It is important to keep our focus on the Low-income people who have asthma since they are the most affected by that life-threatening condition. Asthma is in some instance a preventable condition that was known as a childhood disease, but in today’s society, Asthma affects everyone mostly the low-income communities. “The historical view of asthma being a disease of high-income countries no longer holds: most people affected are in low- and middle-income countries and its prevalence are estimated to be increasing fastest in those countries”(Marks, Pearce, Strachan & Asher, 2016, para. 1). With that said, in Florida, it is reported that more than 2.6million people are affected with Asthma for life.…
1. Discuss the pathophysiology of asthma. Asthma occurs when a patient’s airway becomes narrow, swells and produces excess mucus. The patients’ breathing becomes labored and causes shortness of breath, wheezing, and coughing.…
Invisible COE A new cure has been invented, on March 1 2050, the physiologist Dr. Campbell invented a cure for Asthma. Well at least everyone thought it was for Asthma. Which really was a cure for everything. So Dr. Campbell always wanted to be famous for finding a cure.…
This paper focuses on the treatment and management of asthma, providing background information on the disease, symptoms and diagnosis. A major argument in this paper is patient self-management education are vital in improving the health outcomes of asthmatic patient. Although asthma has no cure and there is different, treatment and management approaches to kept it under control. Emphasis has been put on the medical care and pharmacological approaches in treating and managing asthma. In this paper however, evidence from different literature is provided to show that emphasis on self-management might also improve the health outcomes of people with asthma.…