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 Exercise-Induced Asthma: Are We Seeing the Tip of the Iceberg?
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Target Audience

Physicians, Physician Assistants, Registered Nurses, Nurse Practitioners and other Allied Healthcare Professionals interested in the treatment of Asthma.

Goals and Objectives

After completing this review of exercise-induced asthma, physicians should be able to:

1. Summarize risk factors for exercise-induced asthma.
2. Describe prevalence rates of exercise-induced asthma and factors that influence prevalence.
3. Outline the pathogenesis of exercise-induced asthma in the context of allergic and non-allergic asthma.
4. Understand when to use, and how to interpret, pulmonary function testing to confirm or rule out exercise-induced asthma.
5. Differentiate exercise-induced asthma from conditions that mimic the condition.
6. Prepare an individualized management plan for a patient with exercise-induced asthma.
Accreditation

National Jewish Medical and Research Center is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

National Jewish Medical and Research Center designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

Participating Faculty

Ronina A. Covar, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
National Jewish Medical and Research Center

Joseph Spahn, MD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
National Jewish Medical and Research Center 


Faculty Disclosure

Disclosure Information Listed for CME Approval Committee and Program Faculty

All faculty in a position to control the content of this activity are expected to disclose any or no significant financial interest or other relationship with any proprietary entity producing health care goods or services, with the exemption of non-profit or governmental organizations and non-health care related companies. Our goal is to ensure that there is no compromise of the ethical relationship that exists between those in a position to control the content of the activity and those attending the activity and their respective professional duties.
Significant financial interest is defined as receiving, or in the past twelve months having received, a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, ownership interest (e.g., stocks, stock options or other ownership interest, excluding diversified mutual funds), or other financial benefit.
Key
± Research Grant
^ Consultant
~ Speakers' Bureau
§ Other (eg clinical study)
David Beuther, MD
± Merck & Co., Inc.
Ronina Covar, MD
^ AstraZeneca, Merck & Co., Inc.
± AstraZeneca, Ross Products/Abbott Laboratories
Joseph Spahn, M.D.
± AstraZeneca, Merck & Co., Inc.
^ AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck & Co., Inc.
~ GlaxoSmithKline

Harold Nelson, MD
National Jewish Medical and Research Center
^ Curalogic, Dey Laboratories, Dynavax Technologies, Genentech, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Schering Plough (Integrated Therapeutics Group)
~ AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline
± Boehringer, Clinical Therapeutics, Genentech, MediciNova, Inc., Sepracor, Inc., Novartis, Schering Plough (Integrated Therapeutics Group), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., Wyeth
Price: FREE!
AMA - Physicians Only Accreditation
 
To receive educational credit, participants must complete an online evaluation form and pass the online assessment with a score of 80% or better. If you do not receive a minimum score of 80% or better, you are permitted 1000 retake(s). After passing the assessment, you can view, print and track your statements of credit online. There is no fee to participate in this activity.
AMA - Non Physician Accreditation
 
To receive educational credit, participants must complete an online evaluation form and pass the online assessment with a score of 80% or better. If you do not receive a minimum score of 80% or better, you are permitted 1000 retake(s). After passing the assessment, you can view, print and track your statements of credit online. There is no fee to participate in this activity.
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