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. 2020 Sep 8:8:529.
doi: 10.3389/fped.2020.00529. eCollection 2020.

COVID-19: Technology-Supported Remote Assessment of Pediatric Asthma at Home

Mattienne R van der Kamp  1   2 , Monique Tabak  2   3 , Sophia E J A de Rooij  4   5 , Pieter P E van Lierop  1   6 , Boony J Thio  1
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COVID-19: Technology-Supported Remote Assessment of Pediatric Asthma at Home

Mattienne R van der Kamp et al. Front Pediatr. .

Abstract

The COVID-19 crisis has pressured hospital-based care for children with high-risk asthma as they have become deprived of regular clinical evaluations. However, COVID-19 also provided important lessons about implementing novel directions for care. Personalized eHealth technology, tailored to the individual and the healthcare system, could substitute elements of hospital care and facilitate early and appropriate medical anticipation in response to imminent loss of control. This perspective article discusses new approaches to the clinical, organizational, and scientific aspects of the use of eHealth technology in pediatric asthma care in times of COVID-19, as illustrated by a case report of an acute asthma exacerbation possibly caused by COVID-19 infection.

Keywords: COVID-19; asthma; child; delivery of healthcare; self-management; technology; telemedicine; wearable electronic devices.

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Case report data showing the lung function measurement over time. *The moment that reliever medication as needed was started. **The moment that personal action plan (6 × 400 μg salbutamol daily) was started.
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