This tool lists controller and quick relief medications, their class, age recommendation, doses/strengths, and priming protocols.
A key goal of the MaineHealth AH! Program is to improve the clinical care of asthma by supporting the consistent use of nationally developed guidelines in the diagnosis and management of asthma.
To support this effort, the AH! Program created this flip chart summarizing current recommendations for asthma care. The AH! Asthma Health Program efforts have been fueled by a multidisciplinary group of clinicians representing nursing, respiratory therapy, public health, primary care physicians, pulmonary and allergy/immunology subspecialists. This chart was adapted from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Expert Panel Report 3: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma, 2007. Some recommendations reflect the local expert opinion of the AH! Asthma Health Program clinicians.
These guidelines were developed for healthcare professionals who provide asthma care to patients.
To order a spiral bound copy, contact Donna Levi at levid@mainehealth.org
Interactive Asthma Action Plan (iAAP) The Minnesota Department of Health's Asthma Program recently launched a new, interactive Asthma Action Plan (iAAP), a computerized clinical decision support tool for licensed health care providers who treat patients with asthma. The iAAP assists asthma providers/prescribers in determining the appropriate severity and asthma control, using the EPR-3 Guidelines, and also supports effective self management by creating patient-specific asthma action plans in English and Spanish. There are four available versions of the iAAP: web-based, desktop, network and electronic health record. You are welcome to personalize it by adding your name and/or logo in the empty space provided.
