Canadian Thoracic Society 2012 guideline update: diagnosis and management of asthma in preschoolers, children and adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2010, the Canadian Thoracic Society (CTS) published a Consensus Summary for the diagnosis and management of asthma in children six years of age and older, and adults, including an updated Asthma Management Continuum. The CTS Asthma Clinical Assembly subsequently began a formal clinical practice guideline update process, focusing, in this first iteration, on topics of controversy and⁄or gaps in the previous guidelines.

Methods

Four clinical questions were identified as a focus for the updated guideline: the role of noninvasive measurements of airway inflammation for the adjustment of anti-inflammatory therapy; the initiation of adjunct therapy to inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) for uncontrolled asthma; the role of a single inhaler of an ICS⁄long-acting beta(2)-ago

SUBMITTER: Lougheed MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3373283 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature