Community Pediatric Asthma Service

Health Care Providers
In this section, we have gathered resources and tools for health care providers to provide consistent, medically accurate (Guidelines) messaging for asthma patients.
If you are looking for referral information, click the link below.
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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 have 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.” -
What's New?
- What you should know about vaping and e-cigarettes (TEDMED video)
- Nurses Explore the Health Effects of Vaping
- Webinar: Asthma in the Yellow Zone: Management & Medication, Asthma & Allergy Network, September 23, 2021
- Do you have a patient who may benefit from payment assistance for their medicines? RxHelp card can help.
- A snapshot of Asthma in Canada, Annual Asthma Survey Report, Asthma Canada
- Consider habit cough, when cough is the primary symptom and is still present despite treatment
- Critical errors in inhaler technique common in children with asthma
- Chronic Asthma: Clinical Practice Guideline, Alberta Doctors, Accelerating Change Transformation Team (ACTT),
- Not sure where to refer a patient in the Calgary area? Click here.
- Need to print a device teaching sheet quickly? All devices; MDI with Spacer & Mask, MDI with Spacer & Mouthpiece, Diskus, Turbuhaler, Twisthaler, Ellipta, Nasal Spray
- Asthma information in 14 languages
- Signs and symptoms it might be asthma (Checklist)
- Pediatric Asthma: Talk the Same Talk 2018 - Asthma knowledge for pediatric health professionals. Handout package contains tools from the "Talk the Same Talk" document
- Physician Orientation 2023: Important Information for Calgary Zone physicians who refer pediatric asthma patients
- Blue Cross Long-Acting Fixed-Dose Combination Products for Asthma/COPD Special Authorization Request Form
- Primary Care Networks Specialist Link: Linking Calgary area physicians to specialists
- Asthma Canada Resources
- Breathe: The Lung Association
- Allergic Living
- Canadian Network for Respiratory Care

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