Asthma Pharmacotherapy Q&A With Beth Zerr, PharmD, BCACP
Real Life Pharmacology - Pharmacology Education for Health Care Professionals
Eric Christianson, PharmD; Pharmacology Expert and Clinical Pharmacist
5 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
When discussing asthma pharmacotherapy with pediatric patients and their families, it is critical to address the concern of suppressed growth with corticosteroid use. Beth shares her expertise and thoughts on this topic.
The GINA update a few years ago has been a game changer in asthma, hear from Beth how this has been implemented in her practice.
Beth also discusses some of the everyday drug interactions and adverse effects of asthma medications in this podcast episode.
Neither Beth nor I have any conflicts of interest in regard to discussing these medications.
If you'd like to contact Beth, you can reach out to her at [email protected]
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| 0:00.0 | Hey all, welcome to this very special episode of Real Life Pharmacology. |
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| 0:42.3 | help educate healthcare professionals. So I hope you enjoyed this episode and definitely feel |
| 0:49.4 | free to reach out to me. Eric Christensen, Med Education 101 at gmail.com if you have any comments, questions, |
| 0:56.6 | or concerns. Here's the episode. All right. Well, I'm excited today. I've got Beth Zier with me. |
| 1:03.8 | So this will be a unique episode of the Real Life Pharmacology podcast. And she's been gracious to give up |
| 1:09.8 | her time to answer a few questions regarding asthma |
| 1:14.9 | and sharing her experience. So thanks for being with us, Beth. If you want to give us a little |
| 1:21.3 | bit of background on yourself, that'd be greatly appreciated. Sure. Thank you for having me. First |
| 1:26.8 | of all, I got to work with Eric many, many years ago when I was a student. So this is kind of fun coming full circle here. Currently, I work as an assistant clinical professor at the University of Arizona. I teach various pharmacotherapy classes for students. I also teach the self-care course and I'm almost afraid |
| 1:47.9 | to say that I teach asthma because that means I should do a good job here today, but that is |
| 1:52.4 | what I teach our students. I also have a clinical position. I've worked at Ampair for the past about |
| 1:57.8 | 14 years. Right now my clinical position is all telehealth and I focus on |
| 2:02.3 | mostly diabetes, hypertension, lipids, kind of the common things. Perfect. Sounds good. Well, |
| 2:07.7 | we'll get right into it. That's what I like to do. So I really enjoy sharing some of the things |
| 2:15.9 | from the real world. I know a lot of students benefit from that, |
| 2:19.1 | learning what actually happens out there in practice. |
| 2:21.4 | So from your perspective and your practice, |
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