- Objectives
- Introduction
- Viral croup
- Bronchitis
- Bronchiolitis
- Pneumonia
- What is pneumonia?
- What are the causes of pneumonia?
- What are the symptoms and signs of pneumonia?
- Should all children with pneumonia have chest X-rays?
- Is pneumonia a serious infection?
- How can you recognise severe pneumonia?
- What is the correct management of pneumonia?
- What antibiotics are used in pneumonia?
- Asthma
- What is asthma?
- How common is asthma?
- What are the symptoms of asthma?
- What are the clinical signs of asthma?
- What is the cause of asthma?
- How do inherited factors increase the risk of asthma?
- What is allergy?
- What trigger factors may start an attack of asthma?
- How is asthma diagnosed?
- How is the severity of asthma graded?
- What is the correct management of asthma?
- How is the severity of acute asthma assessed?
- How should acute asthma be treated?
- What should you do if there is no response?
- How should inhaled and nebulised drugs be given?
- How can repeated attacks of asthma be prevented?
- How can trigger factors be avoided?
- What education and support is useful in asthma?
- An approach to lower respiratory tract conditions