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blsea [12.9K]
3 years ago
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A client with a diagnosis of asthma has responded well to treatment with oral corticosteroids, and a switch to inhaled corticost

eroids is planned. What strategy for managing this change in treatment should be implemented?
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kozerog [31]3 years ago
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<u>The best strategy is to  start the inhaled coticosteroids, during the tapering of the oral corticosteroids</u>.  

Tapering of drug  is the reduction of drug dosage gradually so as to manage the withdrawal syndrome and therefore the plasma levels of the drug.<u> The medication is reduced at fixed  intervals by the subject.</u>

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This is necessary in this scenario to  prevent deficiency in  blood  cortisol  levels as a result of  adrenal suppression from  long  oral corticosteroids  treatment. Therefore the inhaled medication  should commence when the  dosage of oral has reduced,/temperd

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