Audience: This webinar is aimed at healthcare professionals that are that are already managing asthma patients in practice and would like an update in paediatric asthma.
This webinar will cover:
- A refresher: overview of paediatric asthma/epidemiology
- The latest guidance on diagnosing asthma in children:
- What makes it more likely?
- What about the under 5’s?
- Wheeze in early childhood:
- Episodic viral wheeze
- Multiple trigger wheeze
- The latest guidance on treating asthma in children
- The pharmacological and non-pharmacological management of asthma and rhinitis
- Overview of guidelines (BTS/SIGN guidance) and the differences
- Choosing an inhaler device and inhaler technique (practical session)
- Recognising and managing acute exacerbations.
- Action Plans and supported self-management
The webinar will be hosted via TEAMs. Your booking details will be shared with the training supplier, LR Respiratory, who will send out course information and joining link in advance of the session. They will provide you with the opportunity to test the link to ensure it is not blocked by firewalls and to download anything necessary. You will need a good internet connection and a microphone and webcam ideally.
Throughout the webinar you will be expected to contribute to discussion and will be able to contribute and ask questions using the ‘chat feature’.
This meeting will be supported by Trudell Medical. They will have not initiated this meeting and will have had no input into the content, programme or organisation of this educational meeting. At the start of the webinar, they will deliver a 10 minute promotional product presentation.
This course is for staff working within the Cornwall healthcare economy. We reserve the right to cancel any ineligible bookings. If you work outside Cornwall and are interested in this course, please email kernowhealthcic.workforce@nhs.net
This course is fully funded if your Practice subscribes to the Primary Care Education Programme. For non-members, an administrative charge of £30 (including VAT) applies.
If you need to cancel a booked place on a course, please do so giving sufficient notice for the place to be reallocated. As per our terms and conditions, we reserve the right to charge for places cancelled less than 5 working days prior to the course start (unless otherwise stated), or failure to take up the place on the day of the course. This applies to both members and non-members of the Primary Care Education Programme.