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?