Asthma - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo Clinic
2024年4月6日 · Determining your asthma severity helps your doctor choose the best treatment. Asthma severity often changes over time, requiring treatment adjustments. Asthma is classified into four general categories: Prevention and long-term control are key to stopping asthma attacks before they start.
Severe Asthma | American Lung Association
2024年11月4日 · Basic treatment for severe persistent asthma consists of inhaled corticosteroids. Additional long-term controller medicines, such as long-acting beta 2 agonists (LABA), montelukast or theophylline, are added if asthma is still uncontrolled.
For individuals with moderate to severe persistent asthma already taking low- or medium-dose ICS, the preferred treatment is a single inhaler with ICS-formoterol (referred to as single maintenance and reliever therapy, or “SMART”) used both daily and as needed.
Difficult-to-Treat and Severe Asthma: Management Strategies
2021年3月1日 · Asthma therapy should include a high-dose inhaled corticosteroid plus a long-acting beta agonist (LABA) and rescue therapy. Nonbiologic add-on therapies, such as a long-acting...
Asthma Management Guidelines: Focused Updates for 2020 - AAFP
For mild to moderate persistent asthma, single maintenance and reliever therapy (SMART) is preferred. This approach reduces the potential adverse effects of chronic steroid use, lowers emergency...
For individuals with moderate to severe persistent asthma already taking low- or medium-dose ICS, the preferred treatment is a single inhaler with ICS-formoterol (referred to as single maintenance and reliever therapy, or “SMART”) used both daily and as needed.
Severe Asthma: Symptoms, Treatment, Attacks, and More - Healthline
2024年2月13日 · In most cases, avoiding triggers, taking daily medications, and using other treatment options can help you manage your asthma. But if your asthma does not remain well managed via any type...
Asthma: Types, Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis & Treatment - Cleveland Clinic
2022年1月19日 · Persistent: Persistent asthma means you have symptoms much of the time. Symptoms can be mild, moderate or severe. Healthcare providers base asthma severity on how often you have symptoms. They also consider how well you can do things during an attack. Asthma has multiple causes: Allergic: Some people’s allergies can cause an asthma attack.
2020 Focused Updates to the Asthma Management Guidelines
2020年12月3日 · Using bronchial thermoplasty (BT) to treat selected adults with persistent asthma. During the procedure heat is used to reduce the muscle around the airways. The report includes several new features to help health care providers engage with their patients:
Asthma: Updated Diagnosis and Management Recommendations …
2020年6月15日 · Asthma severity is defined by the treatment required to control symptoms and exacerbations. Well-controlled asthma involves daytime symptoms or as-needed medication use twice a week or less,...