Asthma Management Chart Updated, Australia

Main Category: Respiratory / Asthma
Also Included In: Allergy
Article Date: 28 Apr 2007 - 12:00 PDT

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The National Asthma Council Australia has released an updated version of the popular 'Managing Your Asthma' wall chart, which is designed to help health professionals discuss asthma medications with patients.

The new wall chart features up-to-date colour photographs of 43 different asthma medications available in Australia today.

Each product is shown next to its current packaging for at-a-glance recognition and is grouped according to its classification. Relievers, non-steroidal preventers, corticosteroid preventers, symptom controllers and combination medications, as well as inhalers used in COPD, are all highlighted.

The original version of the chart was produced by the Townsville Division of General Practice which has collaborated with the National Asthma Council in the subsequent versions. In 2005 and again in 2006, an unrestricted educational grant from Merck Sharp & Dohme has enabled the National Asthma Council to update and reissue the Chart, making it available nationally, at no cost.

The latest version of the chart features an expanded collection of products and vastly superior photography to ensure the product colours on the chart exactly match the real thing.

Distribution of the updated 'Managing Your Asthma' wall chart will commence this month. It will be particularly relevant to general practitioners, pharmacists, thoracic physicians, asthma educators, allergists and practice nurses.

National Asthma Council Australia Limited
1 Palmerston Crescent
South Melbourne, Vic 3205
Australia
www.NationalAsthma.org.au