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Pharmaceutical Press Asthma In Focus by Anna Murphy
This is a concise introductory guide to asthma, the medicines used in its treatment, and the role of the pharmacist and other healthcare professionals in counselling patients on their illness, lifestyle and medicines. As with other titles in the series, "Asthma in Focus" discusses the drugs used to treat the disease, and describes how the pharmacist can get involved in counselling patients._x000D_ _x000D_
Introduction; 1. Asthma: the disease; 2. Pharmacological management; 3. Management of acute asthma; 4. Lifestyle management; 5. Monitoring asthma; 6. Drug delivery to the lungs and inhaler devices; 7. Patient education and self management plans; 8. Asthma in pregnancy; 9. Beta-2-agonists; 10. Anticholinergics; 11. Corticosteroids; 12. Methylxanthines; 13. Leukotriene antagonists; 14. New therapies and future developments in asthma management; 15. Compliance and concordance; 16. Pharmaceutical assessment of people with asthma._x000D_