The client tells you that he can stop several asthma attacks each day within a few minutes of their onset by using a short-acting beta-agonist inhaler and wants to know why he should bother to use regularly scheduled systemic drugs
What is your best response? A. "Frequent asthma attacks, even if they are halted relatively quickly, damage the bronchial tissues over time."
B. "If asthma attacks are uncontrolled they lead to the eventual development of lung cancer and emphysema."
C. "Using only short-acting beta agonists will lead to the development of drug resis-tance and then the drug won't work when you need it."
D. "Beta-agonist inhaled drugs only treat the inflammatory aspects of asthma and do not help the inflammatory aspects of the disease."
A
Because damage can occur with any asthma attack, the main focus of therapy should be on attack prevention rather than just on symptom management.
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