Bronchial asthma - what should every doctor know?

Tobiasz Michał, Turkosz Agnieszka, Tobiasz Maciej, Polski Paweł, Wójcik Rafał. Bronchial asthma - what should every doctor know? Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2019;9(9):104-111. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3384375 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/7370 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 1223 (26/01/2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2019; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 05.08.2019. Revised: 15.08.2019. Accepted: 03.09.2019. Bronchial asthma - what should every doctor know? Michał Tobiasz1, Agnieszka Turkosz1, Maciej Tobiasz2, Paweł Polski3, Rafał Wójcik4 1 Student of Medical University of Lublin 2 Department of Plastic Surgery. Eastern Center of Burns Treatment and Reconstructive Surgery 3 Department of General and Transplant Surgery and Nutritional Treatment, Medical University of Lublin 4Department of Human Anatomy, Medical University of Lublin Adderss fot correspondence: Paweł Polski, Department of General and Transplant Surgery and Nutritional Treatment, Medical University of Lublin, 8 Jaczewskiego St, 20-954 Lublin, Poland, phone: +48 514 746 457, e-mail: maestro532@wp.pl Abstract More than 235 million people worldwide suffer from asthma. Most of the patients have mild asthma, but in a large part of them asthma is not fully controlled and they are exposed to the occurrence of exacerbations. It is believed that the most important reason for poor asthma control is the patients' failure to comply with chronic treatment recommendations. This article describes the symptoms and course of the disease. There is also contain information about the criteria of diagnosis and changes in therapeutic progress which were announced in 2019 by Global Organization for Asthma. Keywords: asthma, dyspnoea, GINA 201