Casebook: Severe Asthma. .
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Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 7Health. Publisher: Practitioner, 2005ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Allergy -- Research | Allergy -- Treatment | Asthma | Food allergy | HyperventilationDDC classification: 050 Summary: "The typical symptoms of cough, wheeze and breathlessness associated with variable peak expiratory flow recordings (possibly with a trial of inhaled or oral corticosteroids) usually provides an accurate diagnosis of asthma. But what makes a diagnosis of severe asthma? This is less clear, for asthma severity is a continuous variable and the distinction between severe and moderate asthma is inevitably an empirical judgment." (PRACTITIONER) This article examines six case studies of people with severe asthma.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Casebook: Severe Asthma, March 8, 2005; pp. n.p..
"The typical symptoms of cough, wheeze and breathlessness associated with variable peak expiratory flow recordings (possibly with a trial of inhaled or oral corticosteroids) usually provides an accurate diagnosis of asthma. But what makes a diagnosis of severe asthma? This is less clear, for asthma severity is a continuous variable and the distinction between severe and moderate asthma is inevitably an empirical judgment." (PRACTITIONER) This article examines six case studies of people with severe asthma.
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