Asthma Update: Clinical Aspects and Management

1. Discuss the treatment of children who have mild asthma. 2. Know that exercise-induced asthma often represents poorly controlled persistent asthma rather than mild intermittent asthma. 3. Discuss how to assess the severity of asthma and the progress of therapy. 4. Describe the most effective treatment for persistent asthma of any severity. 5. Know the most appropriate second-line therapeutic intervention for children who have moderate and severe asthma. This is the second of a two-part article on asthma. Readers should consider both parts for a complete review