IPCRG webinar series
Luke Daines and Jim Stout look into the challenges of diagnosing asthma in adults and children and the added complexity of the COVID-19 pandemic in their webinar:
COVID-19 & the Challenges of Diagnosing Asthma in Primary Care
Luke Daines is a GP and Academic Clinical Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and Jim Stout is Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Washington and a paediatrician at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
You may find the following parts of the presentation particularly useful:
Luke Daines Presentation
Timing: 10.40 – 29.08: A useful talk on challenges of diagnosing asthma in primary care.
- Mis-diagnosis
- Why is making an accurate diagnosis challenging
- Achieving a diagnosis of asthma
- Trial of treatment and follow up
- Challenges of assessment due to COVID
- Good patients experiences
Jim Stout Presentation
Timing: 29.45 – 51.38: Challenges of asthma diagnosis in children. Contrasts high income with low and middle incomes countries.
Questions for parents
- Does your child have a history of breathing difficulties?
- Does your child currently have breathing difficulties, cough or wheezing?
- Is your child currently wheezing?
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