Patient Speaks... Good Asthma control needs a healthy Doctor Patient Relationship, learn more

This is a 48 yearold School Physical Instructor presented to us with uncontrolled Bronchial Asthma. He has been visitng Apex Goverment Institute but was not able get relief because so many factors. He was so disillussioned and decided to live his life with distress as he had no clues what to do? and started thinking about the future of family. He was unhappyand lost hope.He was disturbed because of so many reasons:
No1
 He was not explained adequately about  the chronicity of disesase and role of long term inhalation "LABA & ICS"
No 2
 Every time a new doctor was attending him and there was no scope for a healthy long term doctor patient relationship.
No 3
No proper Inhalation and Device education was provided to him.
No 4
 Importance of home monitoring with a simple Peak flow meter was not stressed upon.
 No5
Importance of trigger mananagement was not discussed.
 & last but not the least
 No6
 No emphasis on disesase perception called illneess and  lack of couselling and  assurrance for  a good control with safe long term modern medications.

To conclude,he missed Empathy in his relationship with doctors.
We received him few years back at SAANS foundation and addressed all these issues.
He started improving and now maintaining a symptom free live
 learn more and hear from him
Patient Speaks 2

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Breath better has become a mantra to live a healthy life post covid-19. Navigating and maintaining the post covid health has become vital.

Image
  Breath Better live longer… Must for all in post covid In this decade of covid, lung health is key to success. Covid is not a simple infectious disease it’s an inflammatory disease, if you understand your respiratory system and practice daily lung healthy practices, you can stay healthy. Let’s understand our lungs, the organs which are breathing 2 4 x 7 to give you a smooth breath of life. Breath is an effort as we put effort to breathe in and breathing out is the elastic recoil of the lung. Lungs' elastic power empties the lung. Instead of thinking of lungs as airbags, it might be more appropriate to think of them as life jackets. Each lung has about 300 million balloon-like structures called alveoli, which replace the carbon dioxide waste in one’s blood with oxygen. When these structures are filled with air, the lungs become the only organs in the human body that can float on water. This life jacket analogy is even more poignant during a pandemic when lung health has been pushe
Read more

Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Kyphoscoliosis with Severe Respiratory dysfunction

Image
watch this video  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyM-YvohyR4&t=376s Kyphoscoliosis is a thoracic cage deformity that causes extrapulmonary restriction of the lungs and gives rise to impairment of pulmonary functions, The best treatment for patients with chronic respiratory dysfunction secondary to severe kyphoscoliosis are 1. Pulmonary Rehabilitation with SAANS Breathing Techniques 2. spinal support 3. Non Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilatio n
Read more