COURSE DESCRIPTION
Language: English
Duration: 30 minutes
Topic: Pediatric Respiratory
Speaker: ANDREW BUSH, Professor of Paediatrics and Head of Section (Paediatrics), Imperial College, Professor of Paediatric Respirology, National Heart and Lung Institute, UNITED KINGDOM
Learning Objectives
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Understand that an asthma lung attack (not ‘exacerbation’) is serious, a ‘never event’ like cutting off the wrong leg in an operating room, and is a ‘near-death’ experience.
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Appreciate what can trigger an asthma attack, especially those triggers which are susceptible to modulation.
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Respond appropriately in the aftermath of an attack to prevent the otherwise certain, and possibly fatal, recurrence.