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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.
Therefore, an important concept in asthma management is supported self‐management; a personalised asthma action plan (PAAP) is a potentially important component of that support (Pearce 2016). This plan should detail the person's baseline characteristics, including measures of control (e.g. peak expiratory flow (PEF) and/or symptoms, and ...
This is an update of the former GMMMG Asthma Management Plan. This update represents a sea change in the management of asthma and is aligned with the latest GINA guidance.
Download or print a free asthma action plan. Take it along to your next asthma appointment and ask your GP or nurse to help you fill it in. Talk through the plan together so you’re clear on how to use it. Ask them to print a copy out for you, or send it to you by email, SMS or WhatsApp.
In between regular asthma reviews, your patients need to know what to do to manage their asthma well. An asthma action plan tells your patients: which medicines they need to take every day; what to do if their asthma symptoms get worse; what emergency action to take if they have an asthma attack.
Asthma action plans, in conjunction with asthma education and regular follow-up, can improve patients’ symptoms and quality of life and reduce hospitalization. This novel point-of-care tool provides practical advice on how to complete AAPs to improve patients’ asthma self-management.
People with asthma may be given a written personalised action plan for managing their asthma. This plan provides information on which medicines they should take and when. Other people may be given education on how they should look after their asthma.
