Current guidelines from the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) acknowledge allergy and IgE-mediated processes as major contributors to persistent asthma. These guidelines—the Expert Panel Report 3 (EPR-3)—outline specific recommendations for evaluating the potential role of allergy and IgE in patients with asthma. Nevertheless, many office-based pulmonologists underestimate the clinical relevance of these processes to asthma and do not routinely test or screen their asthma patients for allergies. This educational activity is designed to increase awareness among pulmonologists and their ancillary healthcare staff of the role of IgE-driven processes in asthma and instruct on ways to integrate pertinent EPR-3 guidelines into clinical practice, including implementing allergy testing and allergen avoidance measures for all patients with persistent asthma.

Available until September 2010, this activity offers:
Physicians: 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^™
Nurses: 0.6 contact hours

Jointly sponsored by:

Supported by an educational grant from Genentech-Novartis.
 

 

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