Understanding Respiratory Drugs: Short Course
(Locally Delivered)
Why is Understanding Respiratory Drugs important?
- Question: What is the most expensive treatment or inhaler device?
- Answer: The one that the patient collects from the chemist, never uses and stock piles in their cupboard!
What does this course offer?
This course is for healthcare professionals who care for patients with respiratory disease
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This one day course is for healthcare professionals who care for patients with respiratory disease and would like to know more about treatment options.
This interactive course, led by practicing clinicians with experience of prescribing, will remind you of what the drugs are, how they work, the risks, benefits and side effects and the challenges of prescribing for the increasing number of patients with co morbidities.
The course will cover the following areas:
- Asthma – the disease and the drugs
- What’s new?
- Any new advice from the guidelines?
- The role of inhaled steroids and responsibilities of prescribing.
- Allergy and Asthma – one airway, one disease?
- COPD - diagnosis and drugs
- What’s new?
- Treatment dilemmas
- Do inhaled steroids have a place in COPD?
- Drugs, devices and delivery systems
- Discussion around use of inhalers, cost effectiveness vs efficiency
- CFC discontinuation
- Medico legal aspects of ‘prescribing’
- Use of case studies to explore responsible prescribing
- Putting treatment into practice
- Sharing good practice – issues or concerns
Cost
15 place locally delivered training £1,725
22 place locally delivered training £2,300
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Tel: +44 (0)1926 836836
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