Algorithm of the approach to asthma diagnosis and control treatment
asthma, cough, wheezing, dyspnea, spirometry, bronchodilation, bronchoprovocation, ICS, LABA, budesonide, fluticasone, formoterol
Algorithm that presents signs/symptoms that may lead to asthma suspicion and criteria for asthma diagnosis. Differentiates approach for the patient who is already under asthma control therapy versus the patient without any therapy started. It presents several therapeutic options for controlling asthma, according to the symptoms intensity (framed in different therapeutic steps).
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Pedro Filipe Tavares
Nuno Mendanha Pereira
Leonor Ferreira da Silva
Madalena Braga
Tiago Costa Freitas
Felicidade Malheiro
Gustavo Fernandes
Miguel Magalhães
Validation
11/2022 | Elvira Teles Sampaio
Bibliography
Global Initiative for Asthma. Global Strategy for Asthma Management and Prevention, 2022.
Murtagh J. (2021). John Murtagh’s General Practice. 8th edition, Mc Graw Hill. Sidney.