Asthma guidelines. Guidelines ignore psychology of asthma.

Asthma guidelines: why aminophylline?

274 May 2013, Vol. 103, No. 5 SAMJ Asthma guidelines: Why aminophylline? To the Editor: While it is always encouarging to see new clinical guidelines to help direct therapy for important clinical conditions, the ‘Guidelines for the management of acute asthma in adults’ are disappointing in two regards. Firstly, a majority of acute asthma attacks in adults are managed in the emergency centre and...

Asthma guidelines: invited commentaries.

1. Centers for Disease Control. Asthma—United States, 1989–1992. MMWR CDC Surveill Summ 1995;43:952–955. 2. National Asthma Education and Prevention Program. Expert Panel Report: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma. Bethesda, Md: National Institutes of Health, 1991. 3. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Expert Panel Report 2: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management...

Guidelines for severe uncontrolled asthma.

Since the publication, 9 years ago, of the latest SEPAR (Spanish Society of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery) Guidelines on Difficult-to-Control Asthma (DCA), much progress has been made in the understanding of asthmatic disease. These new data need to be reviewed, analyzed and incorporated into the guidelines according to their level of evidence and recommendation. Recently, consensus document...

DiYcult asthma: beyond the guidelines

The current guidelines for prophylactic treatment of paediatric asthma culminate in the addition of regular oral corticosteroids after a stepwise increase in treatment. However, there are still a few patients whose asthma is not controlled despite such maximal conventional treatment and these children are often referred to a tertiary paediatric respiratory centre. Childhood asthma has several m...

Difficult asthma: beyond the guidelines.