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All right, so we are going to kick off the respiratory section with asthma.

All right, so first off, there's two major, major respiratory conditions that require the use or can require the use of

medications so we've got asthma and COPD and I just wanted to give you guys a rundown of the

differences a little bit between those two respiratory diseases I think it's good for the

background and the understanding asthma is more of a reactive disease,

meaning that the airway is much more reactive.

It closes and opens based upon triggers

and those type of things.

It's a younger onset.

It is more easily reversible than COPD.

Patients will present with wheezing in asthma typically compared to COPD.

And the big thing from a medication standpoint is asthma is always considered to have an inflammatory component to it and

that is you know one of the big reasons why we use inhaled corticosteroids they are the

medications that really blunt that inflammation of the disease. So really, really important there

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