This
easy-to-read guide will help people with asthma
stay out of the emergency room, out of the hospital
and as active as everyone else. It is an ideal
guide for parents, patients and anyone who needs
a quick asthma reference book. Accurate, clear,
and illustrated with line drawings and charts,
One Minute Asthma covers the basics of asthma
and the medicines used to treat it. Readers
will learn how to recognize symptoms, monitor
the progress of an episode and communicate clearly
with health professionals. Also
available in Spanish
Dr.
Plaut wrote One Minute Asthma at the request
of busy physicians who wanted to teach their
patients about asthma during visits to the office
and emergency visits. It is accurate, current
and easy to read. Each page covers a single
concept. There is more helpful information packed
into this 64-page pocket size book than in many
books four times as long. Reading just one page,
”Medicines that make asthma worse”
of this special book has helped many people
improve their asthma care overnight.
Topics
that you won’t see elsewhere are: how
to choose an asthma doctor, how triggers add
up, how people get falsely high peak flow scores,
why you need a four-zone diary and action plan
and how to choose and use a compressor driven
nebulizer. Patients who read four pages of One
Minute Asthma in the waiting room ask better
questions and have a more focused visit.
Blue
Cross, Kaiser, HMOs, the American Association
of Respiratory Care and state health departments
purchase One Minute Asthma in quantities of
1,000 to 20,000 copies. Medical practices buy
it by the hundred to improve the effectiveness
and efficiency of their care. One Minute Asthma
is the only book for the general public referenced
in the 1997 NHLBI Guidelines. With
sales of 1,750,000 copies in English and Spanish,
it has outsold all other asthma books.
First,
learn the basics of asthma and the medicines
used to treat it. Second, monitor your asthma
using peak flow or asthma signs scores. Only
then can you and your doctor work out a clear,
zone-based action plan for treating your asthma
at home.
