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• First Aid for Asthma

About Asthma

• About Asthma
• Asthma Definition
• Asthma Facts
• Asthma in Australia 2008
• Asthma in Australia 2005
• Asthma 2004–05 National Health Survey
• Burden of disease due to asthma in Australia 2003
• Asthma QOL
• Defence Force Entry Requirements
• Student Resources
• Mortality Statistics

People with Asthma

• People with Asthma
• 1 Asthma and Allergy
  • Asthma and allergy facts
  • Allergy tests
  • How can you avoid allergens?
  • Pets, pollen, mould, food
  • Medication
  • Immunotherapy and asthma
  • Can you do anything to reduce the risk of your child developing asthma?
• 2 Asthma and Lung Function
  • Measuring asthma
  • Peak flow
• 3 Asthma and Pain Relievers
  • About Asthma and pain relievers
  • Oral over-the-counter pain relievers containing aspirin or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medicine
  • Topical O-T-C pain relievers
  • 4 Step Asthma First Aid Plan
• 4 Asthma and Air Pollution
  • Outdoor Air
  • Indoor Air
• Resources in Community Languages
• 5 Asthma and Complementary Therapies
  • What is asthma?
  • Why should I consult a healthcare professional about complementary therapies?
  • Evidence about common complementary therapies for asthma
• 6 Asthma and Infant Bedding
  • Why is bedding important?
  • What type of bedding is best?
  • What is asthma?
• 7 Asthma and Diet in Early Childhood
  • Is asthma related to diet?
  • What is asthma?
• 8 Asthma and Wheezing
  • What is wheezing?
  • What do we know about development of asthma?
• Allergic rhinitis and your asthma
  • Allergic rhinitis facts
  • What are the symptoms of allergic rhinitis?
  • How do doctors diagnose allergic rhinitis?
  • Avoid things that make your allergic rhinitis worse
  • What is the best treatment for allergic rhinitis?
  • What is immunotherapy?
  • Follow-up and Key messages
• Using your inhaler
  • MDI (puffer)
  • MDI (puffer) and spacer
  • Accuhaler
  • Autohaler
  • Handihaler
  • Turbuhaler
• Kids With Asthma
• Information Sheets
  • Asthma and Allergy
  • Asthma and Bushfires
  • Asthma & Influenza - the Facts
  • Asthma and Food Fact File
  • Asthma Good Health Tips
  • Asthma Winter Checklist
  • Exercise-induced Asthma
  • How to stick to your asthma medications
  • How to look after your Nebuliser
  • Pregnancy & Asthma
  • The Traveller with Asthma
• Tips to manage your asthma all year
  • Winter
  • Spring
  • Summer
  • Autumn
• `What's Asthma All About?'
• `Why Me? Asthma`
• World Asthma Day
  • World Asthma Day 2008
  • World Asthma Day 2007

Health Professionals

• Health Professionals
• Asthma Management Handbook
• Asthma Action Plans
  • Asthma Action Plan templates
• Spirometry Resources
  • Spirometry training course
  • Performing Spirometry
  • Spirometry Handbook
    • Spirometry - Introduction
    • Measurement of Ventilatory Function
    • Measurement Devices
    • The Technique - How To Do It and Common Pitfalls and Problems
    • Predicted Normal Values
    • Interpretation of Ventilatory Function Tests
    • Infection Control Measures
    • Summary
    • Appendix A
    • Appendix B
      • PNV Male
      • PNV Female
      • PNV Male children
      • PNV Female children
    • Bibliography
    • Acknowledgements
    • Copyright and Disclaimer
  • Spirometry Users` and Buyers` Guide
    • Contents
    • Foreward and Introduction
    • Section One: Spirometry And Measurement
    • How to Perform Spirometry
    • Interpretrive Strategies
    • Fitting Quality Spirometry into a Standard Consultation
    • Quality Assurance
    • Suggested Further Reading
    • Section Two: Selecting a Spirometer
    • Selecting a Spirometer
    • Spirometry Features - Brief Table 1
    • Spirometry Features - Brief Table 2
    • Additional Table 1
    • Additional Table 2
    • Contact Details for Spirometer Suppliers
    • Resource Respiratory Function Laboratories
• Information Papers
  • 1 Asthma and Allergy
    • Asthma - Think allergy
    • Atopy is a marker for asthma that persists beyond early childhood
    • Asthma triggers
    • Diagnosis History taking
    • Diagnosis Allergy tests
    • Management Medication
    • Management Allergen avoidance I
    • Management Allergen avoidance II
    • Management Immunotherapy
    • Preventing development of asthma
    • Allergy References
  • 2 Asthma and Lung Function Tests
    • Spirometry
    • Practical tips - spirometry
      • Spirometry within a consultation
      • Interpretation
      • Normal and abnormal spirometry: A guide
      • Choosing a spirometer
    • Guidelines for infection control
    • Peak Expiratory Flow
    • Practical tips PEF
    • LFT References
  • 3 Asthma and Pain Relievers
    • Introduction
      • Key Messages
    • What is ‘aspirin-induced asthma’?
    • How is aspirin-induced asthma diagnosed?
    • Pain relievers and children with asthma
    • Non-prescription analgesics and asthma
    • Pain References
  • 4 Asthma and Air Pollution
    • Health effects of outdoor air pollution
    • Outdoor air pollutants
    • Health effects of indoor air pollution
    • Indoor air pollutants
    • Current issues
    • Information resources
    • Key Messages
    • Appendices
      • Appendix 1 Air Quality Goals
      • Appendix 2 Air Pollutants
      • Appendix 3 Australian time series and panel studies
      • Appendix 4 Exposure and respiratory outcomes
    • Air Pol References
  • 5 Asthma and Complementary Therapies
    • Introduction and Key Messages
    • Why do people with asthma seek to use complementary therapies?
    • Aims of treatment for people with asthma
    • Regulatory framework for complementary therapies and therapists
    • Information resources
    • Effectiveness of CT in treatment
      • Effectiveness of CT - I
      • Effectiveness of CT - II
      • Effectiveness of CT - III
    • Comp References
  • 6 Asthma and Infant Bedding
    • Current suggestions
    • Identifying high-risk infants
    • Reducing HDM levels in bedding
    • Feathers vs synthetic
    • Volatile organic compounds
    • Combining interventions
    • Bed References
  • 7 Asthma and Diet in Early Childhood
    • Current suggestions
    • Quality of the evidence
    • Identifying high-risk infants
    • Maternal diet during lactation
    • Polyunsaturated fatty acids
    • Probiotics
    • Diet References
  • 8 Asthma and Wheezing in the First Years of Life
    • Key messages
    • Asthma and wheezing - is prevention possible?
    • Wheezing in childhood
    • Factors associated with wheezing
    • Predicting whether wheeze is due to asthma
    • Early life origins of asthma
    • References
    • Wheeze References
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  • Allergic rhinitis and the patient with Asthma
    • Treat allergic rhinitis to manage asthma
    • Diagnosis
    • Patterns of allergic rhinitis
    • Management I
    • Management II
    • Management III
    • Management IV
    • Review
    • AR References
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  • Combination Therapy: Its Role in Asthma
    • Introduction
    • Clinical use of Combination Therapy
    • Combination Therapy in Children
    • Dosage and administration of combination therapy
    • Dose titration and patient expectations
    • Combination medications
    • References
    • Acknowledgements
    • Copyright and Disclaimer
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  • Inhaled Corticosteroids: A Practical Perspective
    • Introduction
    • Efficacy of low-dose inhaled corticosteroids
    • What has changed?
    • What is a minimum effective dose?
    • How is a minimum effective dose achieved?
    • A Guide to Dose Adjustment in Clinical Practice
    • Prescribing in children
    • References
    • Acknowledgements
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  • Inhaler technique in adults with asthma or COPD
    • Inhaler technique is important
    • Common problems
    • Metered dose inhaler
    • Metered dose inhaler plus spacer
    • Autohaler
    • Accuhaler
    • HandiHaler
    • Turbuhaler
    • Special groups
    • Education
    • Using inhalers correctly
    • Other resources
    • References
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  • Leukotriene receptor antagonists
    • Key Points
    • Introduction
    • Diagnostic considerations in young children
    • Rationale for leukotriene antagonism in childhood asthma
    • Clinical evidence for montelukast use in children
    • Preventive treatment in children
    • Other potential roles of LTRAs
    • Acknowledgements
    • LTRA References
    • Appendices
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  • Long Acting Beta2 Agonists - Their Place in Asthma Management
    • What are Long-acting Beta2 Agonists or Symptom Controllers?
    • Clinical Use of Symptom Controllers
    • Recent Studies Characterising the Role of Beta2 Agonists and References
    • Dosage and Administration of Symptom Controllers
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  • Roles of influenza and pneumococcal vaccinations (removed)
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• Other Resources
  • Asthma Adherence - A Guide for Health Professionals
    • Foreword
    • Preface
    • Introduction
    • What we mean by Adherence
    • Influences on Adherence
    • How to Improve Adherence
    • Questionnaire
    • Behaviour Change Protocol
    • References
    • Tips
  • Asthma Care Resources Guide
  • Asthma Cycle of Care
  • Evidence Based Review
    • Foreword
    • Background
    • Evidence
    • Literature
    • Results
    • Step 1
    • Step 2
    • Step 3
    • Step 4
    • Alternatives
    • Step 5
    • Step 6
    • Acknowledgments
  • H1N1 (Swine Flu) Vaccination
  • Managing your Asthma
  • Pain relievers and asthma
    • Quick reference guide
    • AIA Pharmacy notes
  • Peak flow chart
  • Update on LABAs safety in Australia
• Professional Development
  • A-Team™ Asthma Education Program
  • Asthma Management Tools
  • Asthma Issues in Focus
    • Working out occupational asthma
    • Asthma in deep water
    • Asthma myth busting
    • Fighting the flu season
    • Bring patients into focus
    • Action stations
    • Preventing puffer problems
    • Wheeze, sneeze and disease
    • More than just old age
    • Eat well to breathe well
    • Asthma and influenza
    • Asthma education comes to you
    • Living with ‘asthma sickness’
    • Lighten the asthma load
    • Watch your mouth
  • IPCRG
  • NAC Programs with Rural Health Education Foundation
    • A is for Asthma: Managing Asthma in Primary School Kids
    • Breathlessness in the Older Adult: Is it Asthma?
    • Balancing the Benefits: Asthma and Combination Therapy Update
    • Taking a Breather: Asthma Management for Indigenous Australians
    • Asthma and Allergic Rhinitis
    • Archive NAC Programs with RHEF
      • One year on: The Asthma 3+ Visit Plan
      • Asthma 3+ Visit Plan: A New Initiative
      • Asthma and Combination Therapy: Getting the Balance Right
      • New Directions in Paediatric Asthma Management
  • NAC Webcasts
  • Patient-centred Health Care
    • Patient-centred health care in primary care - an overview
      • Preface
      • Background
      • What we mean by `person-centred health care`
      • How do we enhance our person-centred focus in primary care?
      • Hearing and answering patients` concerns
      • Provide information in a manner appropriate for the person
      • Patient-centred health outcome measures
      • Acknowledgements
      • References

Research

• Asthma Research
• Cited References
• Research Awards
  • TSANZ and NAC Asthma Prize
  • RACGP and NAC Asthma Research Award
  • ASCIA and NAC Asthma Research Award
  • AFA and NAC Asthma Research Award
• NAC Asthma Research Archive

About the NAC

• About the NAC
• Administration
• Annual Reports
• Members
• Supporters
• General Practitioners' Asthma Group
• Pharmacists' Asthma Group
• Sensitive Choice
• National Asthma Strategy
  • Foreward - NAS 2006-8
  • Contributors NAS 2006-8
• National Asthma Strategy archive
  • A Decade Coordinated Asthma Management in Australia
    • Vision
    • Foreward
    • A Decade of Asthma Management in Australia
    • Working Harder and Smarter
    • Latest Statistical Trends
    • Adherence: Whose Responsibility?
    • Case Study
    • Managing Childhood Asthma and Parental Anxiety
    • Unravelling the Mystery
    • Sponsors - Acknowlegdements
  • National Asthma Strategy - Implementation Plan
    • Foreword
    • Executive Summary
    • Plan Summary
    • Introduction
    • Part 1 - Asthma in Australia - The Current Situation
    • Part 2 - The Implementation Plan
    • Summary Table - High Priority Strategies
    • Abbreviations
    • Goal 1
    • Goal 2
    • Goal 3
    • Conclusion
    • Appendix 1
    • Appendix 2
    • Appendix 3
    • References
  • National Asthma Strategy - Strategies and Implementation
    • Contents
    • Foreword
    • How to use this Document
    • Purpose
    • Goals and Principal Strategies
    • Goal Two - Identify and Reduce Risk Factors for Asthma
    • Goal Three - Achieve Planned and Shared Responsibility For Asthma
    • Target Groups - Strategies
    • National Asthma Strategy Steering Group
  • National Asthma Strategy - Goals and Targets
    • Purpose
    • The Health Issue
    • The Current Situation
    • The Process
    • Goals and Targets
    • Goal One - Reduction in Asthma Mortality and Morbidity
    • Goal Two - Risk Factors for Asthma
    • Goal Three - Shared Responsibility
    • National Asthma Strategy Steering Group
    • References
  • Report on the Cost of Asthma in Australia 1992
    • Foreward
    • Glossary
    • Executive Summary
    • Introduction
    • Background
    • Scope of Study
    • Approach
    • Findings: Significance of Asthma to the Community
    • Conclusions
    • References
    • Appendices
    • Appendix One
    • Appendix Two
    • Appendix Three
    • Appendix Four
    • Acknowledgements
• International Outreach
  • Transition to CFC-free inhalers
    • About this programme
    • Acknowledgments
    • Further Information

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