Community Pediatric Asthma Service

HCP 13

Health Care Providers

We have gathered resources and tools for health care providers which will help provide consistent, medically accurate messaging for asthma patients.

If you are looking for referral information,
click the link below.

Where to send pediatric patients


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Undiagnosed Asthma and COPD

"It's estimated that 70% of people with asthma or COPD go undiagnosed,"  Finding and treating people with undiagnosed asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) improved their health and reduced their health care visits for respiratory symptoms in the year after diagnosis, according to a world-first clinical trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Asthma Devices

Not sure which device to recommend?  Use our new "Choosing the Correct Device" document 
when discussing device choices for pediatric patients

In a hurry and need to print a device teaching sheet quickly? 
All devices; MDI with Spacer & Mask
MDI with Spacer & Mouthpiece, Diskus, Turbuhaler, Twisthaler, Ellipta, Nasal Spray

 


  1. Asthma Guidelines

    Statement from the Canadian Asthma Management Consensus Summary:  
    “Asthma education is an essential component of asthma management for all patients. Guided self-management, combining asthma education, regular medical review, self-assessment and a written action plan has been shown to reduce hospitalizations, emergency visits, urgent physician visits, missed days at work or school, days of restricted activity and improved pulmonary function in children and adults.” 

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