Abstract

DE LA VEGA PAZITKOVA, Tatiana; PEREZ MARTINEZ, Víctor Tadeo; ALERM GONZALEZ, Alina  and  LECHA ESTELA, Luís. Intervention strategy for monitoring and reduction of bronchial asthma crises applying an early alert system. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 2011, vol.27, n.2, pp. 131-142. ISSN 0864-2125.

Introduction: asthma is a psychosomatic disease becomes important health problem at world scale. The climate and time influenced on the human health. It is known the influence of environmental factors on the appearance of acute crises of bronchial asthma. Objective: to design a community intervention strategy based on the association of asthma with the meteorotropic changes to alert early on the possibility of triggering clinical manifestations, to alleviate and to reduce the asthma crises. Methods: an action plan was designed including physicians, patients and their custodians came to emergence service of "Ana Betancourt" polyclinic and its consulting rooms over 2010. All them were trained in the interpretation and processing of the bio-metereological prognosis form, whose results will alert on its daily action in face of metereotropic risks. Results: authors propose a community intervention strategy to reduce in at least a 20 % the number of patients with asthma crises and its severity. Conclusions: environmental factors influenced on the appearance of acute crises of bronchial asthma. The hyperoxia conditions or the increase in partial density of oxygen in the air are predicable, allowing to alert at time to health authorities on its occurrence to carry out actions plans and prophylactic-preventive measures to minimize the unfavourable impacts of the climatic changes reported.

Keywords : Intervention strategy; bronchial asthma; early alert; prognostic form.