TY - JOUR T1 - Implementation of a school emergency asthma bag JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 619 LP - 619 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2020-319394 VL - 106 IS - 6 AU - Richard J P G Chavasse AU - Tom Coffey AU - Olive Brown-Bampoe AU - Iquo Adebayo AU - Vinodh Kumar Y1 - 2021/06/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/106/6/619.1.abstract N2 - Asthma affects 1 in 11 children or approximately 3 children in every classroom. It is a common cause of school absenteeism, impacting on both the child’s education and their parents’ work.1 Asthma attacks may happen during the school day with potential triggers including exercise, stress, infection and the environment.2 Schools should be informed that a child has asthma and hold this information in a register. They should be given a personalised asthma action plan (PAAP) and a rescue short-acting beta agonist (SABA) inhaler (and spacer) for each child. In 2014, an amendment to Schedule 17 of the Human Medicines Regulations Act 2012 allowed schools to obtain an emergency SABA inhaler to use in an emergency if the child’s own … ER -