title: Best Treatment Guidelines For Bronchial Asthma.
abstract: Asthma is a common disease worldwide with significant ethnic and regional variations. An increasing morbidity and mortality, as well as health care burden from asthma have been recognized lately. Several evidence based guidelines have been developed with an aim to standardize and improve the quality of management. These guidelines seek to translate the advances in the understanding of pathogenesis of asthma and in the development of new agents and strategies into practical application at all levels of healthcare. These advocate an assessment of the patients to classify the severity of diseases followed by a step-wise approach to treatment. With the current management we hope to achieve minimum or nil day time and night time symptoms, prevent acute exacerbations and attain normal or near normal lung function, thus improving the overall quality of life.
authors.affiliation: Senior Advisor (Medicine & Respiratory Medicine), Military Hospital (CTC) Pune 40.
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Rai
authors.affiliation: Senior Advisor (Medicine & Respiratory Medicine), Military Hospital (CTC) Pune 40.
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Patil
authors.affiliation: Classified Specialist (Medicine & Respiratory Medicine), Military Hospital (CTC) Pune 40.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Vardhan
authors.affiliation: Senior Resident (Respiratory Medicine), Military Hospital (CTC) Pune 40.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Marwah
authors.affiliation: Senior Resident (Respiratory Medicine), Military Hospital (CTC) Pune 40.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pethe
authors.affiliation: Resident Respiratory Medicine, Military Hospital (CTC) Pune 40.
authors.forename: I M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Pandey
keywords: Bronchial asthma