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Filter by:Of the 5.2 million people with asthma in the UK, approximately one in every 40 have severe asthma that needs the maximum available treatments advised in national asthma guidelines (known as the 'British Thoracic Society / Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network British Guideline on the Management of Asthma'). Despite this, asthma is still inadequately controlled in about half of these patients and they are classed as having 'difficult asthma'. There maybe potential for improvement of the care and health of these patients through better use of medicines and greater input from pharmacists, but more research is needed. The aim of the study is to measure the effects over six months of coordinated information and advice about medicines from hospital and community pharmacists on asthma control in patients with difficult asthma. The patients in the study (52 in total) will be recruited from adult patients attending a specialist difficult asthma clinic in a hospital. Patients will be randomly chosen to have either an appointment with the specialist pharmacist (intervention group), or usual medical care (control group). Usual care will involve seeing the Consultant or Specialist Registrar (doctor) in the clinic. Patients in the intervention group will receive i) assessment and education on asthma, and review of their inhaler technique, from a hospital Advanced Clinical Pharmacist and ii) will also be referred for a medicines use review from their usual community pharmacist (chemist), to take place 1-2 months after their hospital clinic appointment. The Advanced Clinical Pharmacist will be working closely with the Consultant. Results will be measured using methods that have been developed by experts in asthma and tested in previous research. Asthma control will be measured using Juniper's Asthma Control Questionnaire. Other measurements will cover quality of life, use of medication, use of healthcare resources, and inhaler technique.
This is a prospective observational study , to clarity the characteristics of airway inflammation, airway reactivity and airway resistance in rhinitic children with or without asthma and to explore the possible predictors in the progression of allergic rhinitis to asthma.
The study is performed to evaluate the total systemic exposure and lung bioavailability of CHF 5993 pMDI combination, in healthy volunteers subjects.
This project aims to study the effects of lifestyle changes on asthma and systemic inflammation in a randomized clinical trial of diet and exercise. The project is a multidisciplinary collaboration in the areas of medicine, physiology and nutrition, centred on improving asthma control in non-obese sedentary asthmatics via simple means.
The investigators will apply 129Xenon and/or 3He image acquisition and analysis methods in 200 asthma patient volunteers in order to characterize and probe the relationship between lung structure and function using imaging.
Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure (BiPAP) is increasingly being reported as an effective and safe method of respiratory support for children with severe asthma exacerbations unresponsive to standard therapies and with impending respiratory failure. Much of the evidence base supporting its use comes from retrospective observational studies, and there is currently a lack of data from randomized controlled trials to inform this practice. The investigators hypothesize that the use of BiPAP in children with moderate to severe asthma exacerbations could reduce the length of hospital stay, need for invasive ventilation, and use of intravenous bronchodilators. The investigators aim to test this hypothesis by randomizing children attending the Emergency Department with a moderate to severe clinical severity score refractory to inhaled bronchodilators to receive either BiPAP in addition to standard asthma care, or standard care alone.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether extra fine formoterol/beclomethasona are more effective in the treatment of asthmatic crisis when added to conventional treatment compared with conventional treatment alone.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of single ascending dose of CNTO 7160 administered intravenously (IV) in healthy participants and multiple dose administered IV in participants with asthma and atopic dermatitis.
The purpose of this study is to characterize the cell (the basic building block of all living things) populations and inflammatory (pain and swelling) mediator responses in suction skin blister fluid after allergic skin reaction (ASR) [rash] induction with D. Pteronyssinus [house dust mite (HDM)], Alternaria alternata, or Aspergillus fumigatus allergens in participants with atopic dermatitis (AD) [Skin rash, Eczema] or allergic asthma (AA) [breathing disorder in which there is a wheezing and difficulty breathing].
The purpose of this study is conducting a randomized, single blind, controlled intervention trial to observe the therapeutic effect of experienced chinese herbal formulas based on different stages and different symptoms in pediatric asthma.