Asthma is a chronic pulmonary disease effecting and causing death of many people in india so to reduce death rate due to asthma effective medication therapy management should be done to reduce asthma symptoms and attacks like shortness of breath. Patients with comorbid diseases are also suffering a lot due to improper medication management. A prospective study was conducted in RIMS a tertiary care teaching hospital in inpatient units’ for Management of medication in asthmatics by clinical pharmacist to reduce asthma attacks and symptoms to improve life span in a tertiary care teaching hospital. A total of 122 asthmatic patients were selected and medication therapy management was done. Results showed most patients 105(86.06%) were admitted in hospital due to Bronchial Asthma and some of them 17(13.93%) were not related to Asthma but they have past history of Bronchial Asthma. Majority of patients are on Polypharmacy (43), secondary at least 3 drug therapy (41), thirdly 2 drug therapy (29) and only (9) were on monotherapy. Majority of patients had severe asthma 50.82 (50.82%) and least had mild asthma 10.66 (10.66%). Tablets (54) were found to be effective than Inhalers (24) in asthmatics. Polypharmacy was absorbed in the age group of 56-65 due to comorbid diseases. This study concludes effective medication therapy in asthmatics is combination therapy like poly pharmacy for better relief of asthma attacks, symptoms and improves lifespan in asthmatics.
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