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Digital Seminar

Asthma Interventions

The GINA Guidelines

Speaker:
Alicia Elam, PharMD
Duration:
1 Hour 32 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
May 11, 2023
Product Code:
POS078564
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

Everything you have known and practiced in the management of asthma for the past 50 years is no longer relevant! The Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) Guidelines have totally revamped the approach to asthma management and as a primary care provider, this is information you absolutely need to know. In this session, you will learn the current asthma treatment strategies with the goal of preventing deaths and exacerbations, with new guidelines for prescribing albuterol as a rescue inhaler. You will walk away with a new understanding of the best way to manage asthma in 2023 and beyond!

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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the online post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, and others.

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Earn up to 1.5 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by state and profession. 


Pharmacology Nurse Practitioners

This self-study program offers 90 instructional minutes of pharmacology content which is designed to qualify for 1.5 contact hours toward your pharmacology requirement. 


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California Nurses

PESI, Inc. is a provider approved by the California Board of  Registered Nursing, Provider #: 17118 for 1.5 self-study contact hours. 

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Florida Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Florida Board of  Nursing. Provider #: FBN2858. These materials qualify for 1.5 self-study contact hours.

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PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Iowa Board of Nursing. Provider #: 346. Nurses successfully completing these self-study materials will earn 1.5 self-study contact hours. Please email cepesi@pesi.com with your license number, include the title, speaker name and date. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid.


Physician Assistants

AAPA accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME such as PESI. Physician assistants may receive a maximum of 1.5 hours for completing this self-study program. This activity was originally recorded on 5/11/2023. It was last reviewed on 3/22/2023 and is valid until 03/22/2026

 

PESI, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. PESI, Inc. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.


Physicians

PESI, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. PESI, Inc. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. This activity was originally recorded on 5/11/2023. It was last reviewed on 3/22/2023 and is valid until 03/22/2026.

 

Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. You are required to successfully complete and submit a post-test prior to receiving a certificate of completion.


Other Professions

This self-study activity qualifies for 1.5 continuing education clock hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements.



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Speaker

Alicia Elam, PharMD's Profile

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Alicia Elam, PharmD, is a pharmacist and tenured Associate Professor of Pharmacology in the College of Allied Health Sciences at Augusta University. She serves as the Director of Admissions for the Physician Assistant Program at Augusta University, and greatly enjoys mentoring students that are interested in pursuing graduate degrees in medicine, pharmacy, PA and other allied health science fields. Dr. Elam has over 28 years of experience in the field of pharmacology, including serving as a Lieutenant, Medical Service Corps Officer in the US Navy.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Alicia Elam has an employment relationship with Augusta University. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Alicia Elam is a member of the Georgia Pharmacist Association, the Physician Assistant Education Association, National Pharmaceutical Association, and the Georgia Association of Physician Assistants.


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


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Objectives

  1. Determine goals of asthma therapy as it relates to the GINA Strategy.
  2. Analyze why SABAs have been demoted as a rescue inhaler in the management of asthma.
  3. Determine the LABA-ICS of choice according to the GINA Strategy.
  4. Evaluate with monotherapy asthma inhaler class is contraindicated in the management of asthma.

Outline

What is GINA?

Discuss Anti-Asthmatic Drugs and how they are employed in the GINA strategy
  • SABAs
  • LABAs + ICS
  • LAAC
  • ICS
  • LTR
Discuss how the GINA Strategy has changed the use of albuterol in the management of asthma

Compare previous asthma treatment guidelines to the current GINA strategy

Discuss the US Boxed Warning associated with LABAs in the management of asthma

Discuss alternative asthma treatments/other controller options employed in the GINA Strategy
 

Target Audience

  • Nurses
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Physician Assistants
  • Physicians
  • Respiratory Therapists

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