Author: Sue Cross & Dave Burns

Are you involved in caring for people with asthma within your practice?  If so, this practical manual will give you all the relevant information you need to know for a high-quality, efficient asthma management service, including: 

• How to run a successful, evidence-based service, using the key BTS/SIGN guidelines
• All the medical, nursing and social background you need for daily practice – with references for further reading
• Practical, short, patient information sections at the end of each chapter to help you explain difficult topics in lay terms
• Tips for successful patient teaching
• Best-practice ways to get your patients to quit smoking
• Protocols for patient assessment
• Over 30 Vital Points highlighted throughout the text, for quick reference
• Essential facts for coping with any asthma emergency

This book contains the essential information you need if you are part of the community asthma care team, whether you are a practice nurse, specialist nurse, GP, community pharmacist or physiotherapist.

Written by two experts in the field, Vital Asthma will be an invaluable companion, allowing you to approach situations within your practice with confidence. And it fits in your pocket, containing all the information in 96 printed pages!


Contents:

• Asthma: some background
• Atopy, allergy and asthma
• Diagnosis and assessment of the asthma patient
• Objective measurement of lung function
• Pharmacological management
• Non-pharmacological management
• Acute severe asthma in adults
• Children with asthma
• Asthma in pregnancy
• Asthma in older adults
• Educating patients about asthma management
• Review and follow-up
• Setting up a clinic
• Professional issues for practice nurses running asthma clinics
• Glossary of terms
• Suggested further reading
• Courses
• Index

‘… will be welcomed as a concise learning resource both by those currently in asthma training, and as an update and a source of reference information by those in practice.’
Dr Mike Thomas FRCP, Universtiy of Aberdeen

Price: £14.99