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What you need to know about bronchial asthma in children and adolescents

Systematize your knowledge of bronchial asthma in children and adolescents — from accurate diagnosis to treatment selection and teaching the family to control the disease.

18academic hours
Advancedlevel
Distance learningmode of study

Course curriculum

  • Definition, epidemiology, basic concepts, classification
  • Features of the clinical presentation and diagnosis of bronchial asthma in children. Recurrent bronchial obstruction in children under 5 years of age
  • Causes and mechanisms of bronchial asthma development
  • Clinical features depending on age
  • Differential diagnosis
  • Peak flow measurement
  • Basic therapy. Inhalation devices
  • Stepwise therapy of bronchial asthma
  • Causes of inadequate control
  • Inhalation therapy
  • Types of inhalation devices
  • Dispensary follow-up
  • Bronchial asthma in adolescents. Phenotypes
  • Phenotypes
  • Severe bronchial asthma, difficult-to-treat bronchial asthma
  • Features of adolescence
  • Bronchial asthma in adolescents
  • Basic therapy in adolescents
  • Exacerbation of bronchial asthma. Severe bronchial asthma
  • Definition, causes, triggers
  • Signs of severe exacerbation
  • Treatment of an exacerbation
  • Bronchial asthma and comorbid pathology. Bronchial asthma and Covid-19
  • Bronchial asthma and allergic rhinitis
  • Bronchial asthma and atopic dermatitis
  • Bronchial asthma and obesity
  • Bronchial asthma and Covid-19

Underdiagnosed or poorly controlled asthma in a child means missed classes, nighttime attacks, and parental anxiety. In the course you will build a clear algorithm of diagnosis and stepwise therapy taking into account age, phenotype, and treatment adherence.

Special attention is paid to typical management errors and working with the family, so you will confidently achieve control of the disease and speak with parents in a language they understand, relying on modern clinical guidelines.

Pantyukhina Elena Olegovna

Pediatric pulmonologist, physician of the highest category

Pediatric pulmonologist of the highest category with more than twenty years of practical experience. Combines many years of clinical experience with regular updating of knowledge on modern fields of pulmonology and palliative care for children.

Pediatric pulmonologist of the highest qualification category, with over 20 years of work experience.

Education

  • 1999 — Ural State Medical University (FSBEI HE), specialty "Pediatrics"
  • 2002 — professional retraining in the specialty "Pulmonology", FSBEI HE USMU

Professional development

  • 2021 — "Modern aspects of pulmonology", FSBEI HE USMU
  • 2021 — "Palliative care in pediatrics", FSBEI HE USMU

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