The Asthma Management Handbook aims to be both comprehensive and user-friendly. While written primarily for general practitioners and community pharmacists, the Handbook emphasises a team approach to asthma care. It contains:
updated diagnostic, management and prescribing guidelines
expanded material on asthma and allergy, exercise-induced asthma, occupational asthma, asthma in pregnancy and in older people, and comorbidities
more detail on diet and complementary medicine
new chapters on smoking cessation and asthma prevention
practical advice on providing structured asthma care in the primary care setting.
Visit the National Asthma Council Australia website for full references for this document, further information and resources, and links to other asthma and respiratory sites: www.nationalasthma.org.au
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The Asthma Management Handbook has been compiled by the National Asthma Council Australia for use by general practitioners, pharmacists, asthma educators, nurses and other health professionals and healthcare students. The information and treatment protocols contained in the Asthma Management Handbook are based on current evidence and medical knowledge and practice as at the date of publication. They are intended as a general guide only and are not intended to avoid the necessity for the individual examination and assessment of appropriate courses of treatment on a case-by-case basis. The National Asthma Council Australia and its employees accept no responsibility for the contents of the Asthma Management Handbook or for any consequences of treating asthma according to the guidelines therein.
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This publication is the sixth handbook on asthma management for medical practitioners distributed by the National Asthma Council Australia. Previous publications were: Asthma Management Plan, 1990, National Asthma Campaign Asthma Management Handbook 1993, National Asthma Campaign Asthma Management Handbook 1996, National Asthma Campaign Asthma Management Handbook 1998, National Asthma Campaign Asthma Management Handbook 2002, National Asthma Council
A handbook for pharmacists, the Pharmacists' Asthma Management Handbook, was also published in 1994.
Citation
The preferred citation is:
National Asthma Council Australia. Asthma Management Handbook 2006. Melbourne, 2006
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Asthma Management Handbook 2006