Publisher's Synopsis
If you have asthma, you need to do what you can to cut your exposure to asthma triggers.
Asthma triggers can aggravate your symptoms -- coughing, wheezing, and having a hard time catching your breath.
While there's no cure, there are steps you can take to keep your asthma in control and prevent an attack.
This book provides a practical, stepwise, evidence-based approach to the effective management of patients with difficult-to-treat asthma.
The impact of asthma on morbidity and healthcare utilization increases exponentially with severity.
Severe refractory asthma accounts for less than 5% of all asthma.
Its prevalence, however, is often overestimated as there are several other confounding factors that make asthma 'difficult to treat'. Many novel (albeit expensive) therapies are now
