About this program

Go Over the Chief Complaint
Review His Past Medical History
Review His Current Medications
Review His Social History
Take a Family History
Do a Physical Exam
Order Laboratory Exams
Make a Diagnosis and Prescribe Medications to Treat This Patient!

Go over the NAEP guidelines on asthma diagnosis and treatment
Review Asthma Medications
Review Spirometry and Sample Cases
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Links to Asthma Related Sites

General Asthma Related Sites

Global Initiative for Asthma
General recommendations about asthma management.

National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
The people who brought you the NAEPP export report mentioned in this tutorial. You too can have a copy of this and many other interesting publications.

Spirometry Related Sites

University of Iowa Virtual Hospital Spirometry Tutorial
A good tutorial on spirometry from the extensive virtual hospital site at the University of Iowa

United Kingdom National Asthma Campaign
A brief tutorial on spirometry.

Australian National Asthma Campaign
A very detailed site about spirometry commissioned by the thoracic society of Australia and New Zealand.

Heart/Lung Sounds

The R.A.L.E. Repository
This site has digital recordings of respiratory sounds. The breath sounds used in this tutorial were obtained from the R.A.L.E. site.

Institut d'Électronique Fondamentale
Another set of recordings of lung sounds.

Littman Stethoscope Heart Sounds
A small selection of heart sounds.

Synapse Publishing Heart Sounds
A nice selection of hearts sounds including the ones used in this tutorial.

Auscultation Assistant
This site at UCLA has a large selection of both lung and breath sounds.

Interactive Tutorials

Acid-Base Tutorial
A very impressive tutorial on everything you ever wanted to know about acid-base balance.

Marshall University Interactive Patient
A fun interactive tutorial that lets you do a complete evaluation on a patient with abdominal pain.

Allegheny EnviroDx Simulated Patient
Another interesting site where you can workup a patient and learn about environmental causes of disease.

General References

Virtual Hospital
A HUGE source of information about medicine from the University of Iowa.

Virtual Children's Hospital
A HUGE source of information about pediatrics from the University of Iowa.

Merck Manual Online
An online version of the Merck manual of diagnosis and therapy.

American College of Cardiology Clinical Guidelines
This page contains the ACC/AHA practice guidelines for various cardiology issues including management of patients with heart failure and acute MI.

Centers for Disease Control
Includes information about travel medicine, diabetes, childhood immunizations, HIV and TB.

NIH/AHCPR Guidelines
This site includes NIH clinical studies and Agency for Policy Health Care and Research guidelines on management of various medical problems.

National Library of Medicine
The national library of medicine home page contains links for medline searches, the visible human project and images from the history of medicine.

Knowledge Weavers
A cool sources of images for medical education projects.