Scientific Basis of Healthcare: Asthma

 Content: The quality of asthma care within primary care / Mark Karaczun ... [et al.] --
 Prostaglandins and leukotrienes : mediators of inflammation in asthma / Neil L. Misso, Shashi Aggarwal, and Philip J. Thompson --
 Unsatisfactory asthma control : a review / Braido Fulvio ... [et al.] --
 Rhinosinusitis and asthma / Bachert Claus ... [et al.] --
 Serious psychological distress and asthma / Michael E. King --
 Adherence to guidelines : guidelines in acute severe asthma / Hannah K. Bayes and Neil C. Thomson --
 Inhalation techniques associated with different devices used in the treatment of asthma / Masaya Takemura --
 Treatment of acute asthma in the emergency setting / Thomas J. Ferro --
 Nurse-led home visits for difficult asthma / Pippa Hall and Andrew Bush --
 Asthma therapy in elderly patients / Andrzej Bozek and Jerzy Jarzab --
 Treatment of pediatric asthma / Kenny Yat-Choi Kwong and Peter Huynh.
 Abstract:             \"In the past three decades there has been a major sea change in the way healthcare is taught and carried out. Healthcare has been transformed from a \"this is what you do\" concept to a profession that has a significant educational and scientific basis with an ethos of evidence-based material. The healthcare professional is now more educated, very often to the degree and masters level. As a consequence, Practice and Procedures are continually changing with a corresponding improvement in healthcare. Concomitantly, the demand for comprehensive and focused evidenced-based text and scientific literature covering single areas of nursing and healthcare science or treatment has also increased. This then is the rational for the present series. This volume on Asthma covers, inter alia, asthma care in primary care centers, rhinosinusitis and asthma, asthma and psychological distress, inhalation techniques for different inhalers, emergency treatment for acute asthma, therapy for elderly patients, treatment for pediatric asthma, nursing care at home and so on. The series is designed for student nurses, practicing healthcare workers, qualified nurses and healthcare practitioners, post graduates, special project students, teachers, lecturers and professors of nursing and healthcare. It is also suitable for college, university or nursing school libraries as a reference guide\"