PCRS Respiratory Conference 20 th and 21 st September 2019 SABA Guardians - creating the followers SABA over-reliance - the bottom up approach Katherine Hickman GP Low Moor Medical Practice Darush Attar-Zadeh Pharmacist – Barnet CCG IPCRG & PCRS received funding from AstraZeneca to develop the Asthma Right Care Initiative
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PCRS Respiratory Conference20th and 21st September 2019
Asthma Right Care – starting with SABA (one of the
NRAD recommendations)
• Use of SABA in asthma in need of major improvement
• Over-reliance, but how to define?
• Note choice of language: not ”use” but “reliance” = type of dependency
• 1st conversations about SABAs may effect future use
• Occur in many places eg community pharmacies, EDs, GP/FP
• We need to know more about these
• Asthma is low priority for change in general HCP despite evidence of
• unwarranted variation in outcomes
• avoidable mortality, morbidity and healthcare utilisation
• education programmesUK data: Variation in proportion of patients receiving 6+
short-acting beta2 agonist (SABA) inhalers for asthma
Respiratory Dashboard, published June 2018 NHS Business Services Authority https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/epact2/epact2-dashboardsspecifications/respiratory-
dashboard. “CCG” is clinical commissioning group – a population of between 250-500,000
● “There is a progressive risk of hospital admission associated with the prescription of more than three SABA inhalers a year”
Hull SA, et al. NPJ Prim Care Respir Med. 2016;26:16049.
Healthcare resource use 1-3 inhalersN=5888
4-12 inhalersN=2054
>13 inhalersN=285
Inpatient episodes 20 33 2
Crude inpatient episode rate per 100 population
0.34 1.61 0.70
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• We are passionately, frustrated with current asthma care in the UK
• Dr Noel Baxter GP South London, PCRS Policy Lead
Doing things
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SABA Confusion/Paradox
● Is it important to draw clinician's attention to the inconsistencies and paradoxes that exist in current national and international recommendations on asthma management?
● On the one hand, the bronchodilating inhalers -- known as "relievers" -- are a good temporary measure
● But patients often are so impressed by the rapid response of the inhalers that they don't use the anti-inflammation inhalers -- known as "controllers"
● As the inflammation on the walls of the airway gets worse, the reliever inhalers fail to work properly as they become overwhelmed
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The resources
What does good asthma control look like?
What does bad asthma control look like?
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What conversation do you have about asthma and SABA use?
1. I follow asthma guidelines, so I tell patients to use SABA’s for asthma treatment in step 1 (for infrequent, intermittent wheeze).
2. SABA’s should only be used for a short time; if you need it a lot contact your physician.
3. I seldom talk to my patients about SABA use as it’s a common, low cost medicine
4. I seldom see the patient and lose track of the excess prescriptions or sales
5. SABA’s only relieve your symptoms, they don’t treat your asthma.
IPCRG 2019 Jaime Correia de Sousa, MD, PhD, on behalf of the Asthma Right Care Team
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Identifying some Asthma RISKS(S)
Ratio of ICS/SABA
ICS appropriate use – non-adherence and over
prescribing
SABA – over-reliance/dependency in asthma
Knowledge – Asthma Reviews, PAAP, Inhaler
technique
Smoking cessation offered and 2nd hand smoke,
environmental exposure
Spacer use
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Pharmacy PMR
SABA & ICS ratio
Oral steroids, hospital discharge
Co-morbidities e.g. hayfever,
reflux (GORD)
Medicine interactions e.g.
smoking
Sense check of diagnosis
Pharmacy label:
PAAP
Only use for cough, wheeze,
breathlessness, tight chest
Seek urgent medical help if not
lasting 4 hours
Inhaler SLOW & STEADY (pMDI)
Health promotion
zone – making
more noise about
Pharmacy
AsthmaRightCare
Creating followers –
patients and peers
Management & Treatment
Discussion aids (ICE)
Slide Rule, Select Q&C cards, Lung tubes
Reframing ICS – Natural Balance
ACT & SABA questionnaires – monitoring asthma control
Diagnostic tools - PEFR, micro-spirometry, CO
Medicines optimisation – including inhaler technique
OTC sales, excess
Rx’s, non-
adherence to ICS
(not collecting?)
SABA
Cough mixture
Hayfever treatments
Antibiotics
Prevention &
Treatment
Flu-vaccination
Weight
management
Physical activity
Smoking cessation
Trigger
management
(know your CO?)
Opportunities in the pharmacy
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Pharmacy Module on
Asthma Right Care
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Barnet – North London
Follower
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Patient Case – 10 year old Raj
● A 10 year old boy diagnosed with asthma at 5, co-existing eczema, hayfever
● Attended an ARC group education workshop (1 hour session)
● First SABA experience - Pre-school, viral induced acute wheeze (SABA through a large volume spacer @ ED)
● On beclometasone (clenil®) and salbutamol/albuterol (12 SABA and 2 ICS shown on records – last year), spacer and mask
● Father has asthma and a smoker (CO reading 12ppm, Raj = 4ppm), smokes outside kitchen window.
VBA offered – PCRS Become a Quit Catalysthttps://www.pcrs-uk.org/resource/tobacco-dependency-pragmatic-guide
● ACT score of 14, episodes of wheeze (heard on auscultation), SOB, night time awakening > twice a week.
● Avoids exercise at school as symptoms get worse, (He wishes he was like other kids – ICE).
● PEFR 212 l/min – best = 254 l/min (6 months ago) – 83% of capacity
● Triggers – Pollen, flu, cold weather, laughter, smoke, perfume, worse when going back to school (psychosocial?), exercise (likely to be due to poorly controlled asthma)
● Receives annual flu vaccine
ICE = Ideas, concerns, expectations
VBA offered – PCRS Become a Quit Catalysthttps://www.pcrs-uk.org/resource/tobacco-dependency-pragmatic-guide
● Addressing ICS non-adherence (Concerns of side effects? Cost? Beliefs?)
● Airway lung models, importance of ICS and how it can help recover any loss of lung openness. Salbutamol only used to help with the outside of the lungs and as an emergency treatment.
Natural steroids
Our lungs are reacting too strongly to triggers
Natural steroids in the body are needed to address the
imbalance
Low dose ICS will help maintain the natural balance.
Inhaled medicines (with good technique) go directly to the
site it’s needed at far lower strengths than tablets.
With thanks to Prof Rob Horne (Psychologist - UCL London)