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Long Term Asthma Management (3+) - 1PM.apkg

👋 Introduction

Welcome to the First Principles of Medicine podcast. In this series we will be breaking down complex medical topics into their first principles.

When the stress is on, and you’ve just been asked a tough question you don’t know the answer to, we feel you’ll be able to fall back on these principles to formulate a decent answer and reason your way out of trouble.

✅ The First Principles of Asthma

🧅 3 Functional Layers of the Airway

Effects of Asthma on the 3 Layers

💉 Long Term Asthma Management

1. Drugs classes available

2. Step-wise approach to management

3. Issues with management (3)

⚡ 3 Key Takeaways

  1. Airway is made up of 3 functional layers
    1. ASM
    2. Airway Wall
    3. Mucus Layer
  2. Mainstay of asthma management are regular ICS + PRN β2-agonists