Abstract
Asthma is an inflammatory disorder of the airways and lung tissue that varies in nature and severity overtime. It imposes a significant increase in the global prevalence, morbidity, mortality and economic burden over the past 40 years. The Study was carried out at Paalana Institute of Medical Science over a period of five months from July 2014 to December 2014. During the entire study period, a total of 90 patients were included of these, 54% were male and 46% were female. It is evident from the study that male population are more prone to asthma as compared to the females. Demographic analysis of data reveled that the most prominent age group were ‘41-50’ and ‘61-70’ years and both comprises of 25.5%. Out of the 90 cases, most patients identified and diagnosed as chronic OAD is accounted by 44.4% followed by acute exacerbation of OAD, which is about 35.5%. Since asthma patients often require more than one drug for control of symptoms hence multiple drug therapy were used. Overall drug therapy used in asthma management showed that the most commonly prescribedantiasthmatic drug were Corticosteroids 100% followed by combination of anticholinergic and short acting β2 agonist 94%, antibiotics 87% and methyxanthines 83% etc. In Corticosteroid therapy, systemic, IV as well as inhalers techniques were usedThus the present study will be more beneficial in improving asthma knowledge as well as current therapy awareness in the medical community.
