Category: Asthma

Table of Contents Definition Epidemiology Clinical Presentation Complications Diagnosis Conclusion with PICOT Question References Asthma is a common condition in children. Except for medication, treatment should involve other methods to manage the disease. Asthma management is important to maintain a high quality of life. However, the effectiveness of such control depends on the education of…

Bronchial asthma is a disease characterized by attacks of breathlessness caused by failures in the bronchial patency. Asthma may be of an acute or a chronic character, and the major distinction between these two types of disease is the severity and longitude of an aggravated condition. It is commonly considered that the terms acute and…

Abstract The purpose of this study is to examine the risk factors predicting asthma among adult African immigrants in California. The research problem is founded on the failure of many health studies to include African immigrants as a minority group in health studies that investigate the relationship between risk factors and asthma. From this gap…

Table of Contents Introduction Treatment Plan Communication Plan Needs Assessment References Introduction Despite the information presented in the case, it may be hard to diagnose asthma directly, unless specific symptoms are identified in the childs medical history. The symptoms outlined by the childs mother may also be linked to the conditions other than asthma. To…

Cold-induced bronchial asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways, and this chronic inflammation causes bronchial hyper-reactivity. Bronchial hyper-reactivity is a condition of the airways in which they respond too easily or too strongly by narrowing their lumen to the effects of various provoking factors, which leads to a restriction of airflow. The possibility…

The second scenario refers to the case of a 12-year-old boy that presents to the emergency department with asthma exacerbation, and, notably, it is the third time he has the same problem in the last three months. The process of collecting the patients medical history is simplified in this case since it is not his…

Table of Contents Introduction Literature Review Design and Methodology References Introduction Nurses role in raising the parents awareness about pediatric asthma and post-discharge phone calls as a means of preventing readmission rates in asthmatic children is not the most studied topic in the field. However, there still are works that concentrate on the bordering topics.…

The article Does participation in the community outreach for asthma care and healthy lifestyles (COACH) program alter subsequent use of hospital services for children discharged with asthma? appeared in the Journal of Asthma. It was written by Pinto, Navallo, and Petrova (2019). The purpose of the study was to define whether participation in COACH influenced…

The Case A 22-year-old woman diagnosed with mild persistent asthma is suffering from recently increased symptoms of asthma. She is pregnant, and her lab work confirms it. As a medication, she uses two types of metered-dose inhalers: albuterol and fluticasone. Her use of these inhalers has increased over the last three months. Additionally, she mentions…

Introduction The available literature indicates that secondhand smoking (SHSE) from parents hurts children with asthma and other respiratory diseases causing various complications. The current practice of nursing has not been effective in enabling the parents to address the issue of SHSE. It is paramount to develop an effective approach that will facilitate nursing interventions to…