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E u r o S c i C o n C o n f e r e n c e o n
PEDIATRICS
2017
Journal of Pediatric Care
ISSN 2471-805X
N o v e m b e r 1 3 - 1 4 , 2 0 1 7
L o n d o n , U K
Pediatrics 2017
Volume:3 Issue:4(Suppl) Page 8
Childhood asthma is the most common chronic disease to children. Asthma
action plan has been advocated by the Global Initiative for Asthma and
international asthma guidelines to achieve self-management for more than 20
years and has been proven to be effective to improve asthma-related outcomes.
In accordance to National Guideline for Diagnosis and Prevention of Childhood
Asthma, the first China’s children asthma action plan, China Children Asthma
Action Plan (CCAAP), as well as a mobile phone-based asthma self-management
application(APP), have been developed. The principles of CCAAP include tracking
changes in child patients’ symptoms and/or peak expiratory flow, using a “traffic
light” model with green (well), yellow (caution), and red(danger) zones, to identify
patients’ current asthmatic conditions. Each zone consists of both instructions
which are intended for parents or caregivers to recognize loss of asthma control,
and intervention strategies with various extents that patient could take when loss
of asthma control occurs in settings outside of medical care facilities. The mobile
phone-based asthma self-management APP (Youran Respiratory) includes an
electronic version of CCAAP, peak expiratory flow monitor system, educational
resources for asthma, and an interactional function between patients and doctors.
The action plan should be provided to asthmatic children when diagnosis is
confirmed; updated each time when child patient discharged from hospital or
emergency; and for patient’s pediatric practitioner to continue to monitor patient’s
conditions. CCAAP will help asthmatic children and their care givers to attain a
better and amore convenient way to achieve asthma control. CCAAP is amilestone
of asthma self-management for children in China, it will be an effective tool for
health care providers, children, parents/caregivers to understand the key points of
asthma management and to achieve well control and eventually to improve quality
of life.
Biography
Kunling Shen, Pediatric Consultant, PhD of Pediatrics, Professor
of Capital Medical University. She is the President of National
Pediatric Medication Consultation Committee, Immediate Past
President of Chinese Pediatric Society, Chairman of Chinese
Pediatric Pulmonology Society. President of Asian Pediatric
Pulmonology Society. She got her Bachelor’s degree major-
ing in Medicine and Pediatrics in Capital Medical University in
1982, and then got her PhD majored in Pediatrics and Virolo-
gy in 1993. She has been working in Beijing Children’s Hospital
and specialized in Respiratory, Virology and Sleep Medicine.
She was a WHO Clinical Fellow in Department of Respiratory
Medicine in New Children’s Hospital of Australia in 1998 and a
visiting Scholar in University of Wisconsin in USA in 2000. She
has carried out numerous projects and studies in respiratory, vi-
rology and sleepmedicine and publishedmore one hundred pa-
pers in the above aspects. She is the vice chief editor of Chinese
Journal of Practical Pediatrics, Chinese Journal of Contemporary
Pediatrics and some other medical journals and Associated Ed-
itor of Pediatric Pulmonology.
China children asthma
action plan
Kunling Shen
1National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Diseases, China
2Beijing Children’s Hospital - Capital Medical University, China
Kunling Shen, J Pediatr Care 2017, 3:4(Suppl)
DOI: 10.21767/2471-805X-C1-001