Overview

We are excited to offer a specialist asthma module covering a wide range of topics relating to the diagnosis and management of paediatric asthma. This will encompass a multidisciplinary approach to the patient care pathway in an asthma service and will include sessions from an asthma clinical nurse specialists, paediatric respiratory consultants, and paediatric physiologists.

The content will cover

  • Making a diagnosis of asthma
  • Lung function tests and how they are applied to patients in an asthma service (FeNO, Skin prick testing, Exercise induced asthma)
  • Inhaler technique, adherence to asthma treatment/other monitoring
  • Avoidance to triggers
  • Ongoing monitoring of patients
  • Considering tertiary referral
  • Case studies
  • Treatment

Finishing with Q&A

Target audience

  •  General paediatricians and trainees with an interest in asthma
  • Nurses working with asthma patients
  • Physiologists and Allied Health Professionals with an interest in asthma

Dates and Times

This course requires registration prior to purchase, for more information and to purchase this course, please click here.