Personalised approach of severe asthma exacerbation: is the time ripe?

• Ways of diagnosis severe  exacerbations
• Be more selective to who we give corticosteroids to during exacerbations
• Effectiveness of oral corticosteroids for asthma exacerbation
• Different treatments for asthma

• Understanding what is asthma exacerbation
• How to diagnose of asthma exacerbation
• Personalised approach to exacerbations and studies results

Dr Freda Yang is an Academic Clinical Lecturer at the Airways Disease Section of the National Heart and Lung Institute and a Specialty Trainee in Respiratory and Internal Medicine at Imperial College Hospitals NHS Trust. Her MD, funded by the MRC UK Refractory Asthma Stratification Programme (RASP-UK) led by Professor Liam Heaney, generated novel findings on the role of oral corticosteroids in biologic-treated patients with severe asthma, and risk factors for exacerbations in biologic-naïve patients.