Advances, opportunities, and the new asthma guidelines.
A main tenet of the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program's approach is to integrate proper management of acute asthma into overall asthma care. Accordingly, we maintain that emergency physicians should be aware of emerging chronic management strategies, especially newer treatment regimens, so as to understand pre-ED treatments, provide optimum ED care, and make appropriate prescriptions and referral on discharge. This commentary discusses limitations to the new guidelines and identifies important areas for further study.
Emond
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Department of Emergency Medicine, St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY, USA.
Camargo
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Nowak
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D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000465:Algorithms; D001249:Asthma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004638:Emergency Treatment / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D010351:Patient Discharge; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D014481:United States