Pediatric Asthma: Management
Über den Vortrag
Der Vortrag „Pediatric Asthma: Management“ von Brian Alverson, MD ist Bestandteil des Kurses „Year 4 – Selective Sub-Internship“. Der Vortrag ist dabei in folgende Kapitel unterteilt:
- Pediatric Asthma: Preventing Exacerbations
- Pediatric Asthma: Management
Quiz zum Vortrag
A 7 year old uses albuterol three times a week and has night-time coughing that wakes him up twice a week. He takes his low-dose fluticasone, two puffs twice a day and is compliant. What’s the best thing to do?
- Add moderate dose fluticasone
- Give him more albuterol and use it more frequently
- Put him on a long-acting beta-agonist twice daily as monotherapy
- Admit him to the hospital for pulmonary function tests
A patient is admitted to the hospital with an asthma exacerbation. What medicine is most likely to prevent him from bouncing back to the hospital?
- Steroids
- Albuterol
- Magnesium
- Terbutaline
All of the following questions are relevant to ask a patient with asthma, EXCEPT?
- Associated constipation?
- Intereference with daily activities?
- Frequency of use of albuterol?
- Systemic steroid use in this year?
- Nighttime awakening?
Which of the following answers for frequency of nighttime awakenings would be categorized as "intermittent asthma
- Once a month.
- 4 times a month.
- Once a week.
- Twice a week.
- Every other night.
Dozent des Vortrages Pediatric Asthma: Management
Brian Alverson, MD
Dr. Brian Alverson is the Residency Director at Nemours Children's Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware and a Professor of Pediatrics at Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Until 2022, he has been a Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Medical Science at Brown University, as well as the Director for the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Hasbro Children's Hospital, Rhode Island, USA.
He obtained his MD at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1999 and is currently also the Director of Undergraduate Pediatric Education at the Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University.
Due to his achievements in pediatric education, he has won over 25 teaching awards at two Ivy League Medical Schools.
Within Lecturio, Dr. Alverson teaches courses on Pediatrics.
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Such a helpful presentation.The most important points of Asthma diagnosis and management in minutes. sure I recommended to my colleges. Thank you,doctor.
