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The practice runs an asthma management program that is geared towards the patient and parent achieving a full understanding of the disease and improving patient management.

The cardinal goals of the program are to:
• Diagnose and characterize the severity of the disease in the patient.

• Ensure that the patient and parents understand asthma, its cause, and management.

• Give patient and parents acceptable expectations for daily life such as improving exercise tolerance in children, decreasing the incidence of coughing and preventing the onset of a sedentary or inactive lifestyle

• Decrease the duration and severity of respiratory illnesses by instituting an anticipatory management program that decreases the likelihood of acute asthma attacks or prolonged colds.

• Improve quality of life by decreasing incidences of nocturnal symptoms which may affect the
quality of sleep in the patient, as well as decreasing sick days or missed school days.

Orlando Pediatric Pulmonary and Sleep Associates (OPPSA) is a highly specialised private practice specializing in the management of a broad range of pediatric pulmonary disorders including Asthma, Allergic Rhinitis, Pneumonia, Gastroesophageal reflux disease, sleep apnea, cystic fibrosis and the management of patients with chronic ventilator requirements. The practice runs excellence programs for Asthma, High-risk and preterm infants and sleep medicine. The sleep clinic manages all pediatric sleep disorders including insomnia, sleep terrors, confusional arousals, sleep walking, narcolepsy, hypersomnia and obstructive sleep apnea.

This is a specialized program with the primary goal of preventing severe respiratory disease in preterm infants and high risk full term infants.

The emphasis is on disease prevention and aggressive management of high risk conditions such as apnea, wheezing in infancy, and gastroesophageal reflux disease. The practice also runs an RSV prophylaxis program and administers SynagisTM. All patient visits are with the pediatric pulmonologist and clients are encouraged to have all questions answered before leaving the office.

The Children's Pulmonary Function Laboratory is the first and only independent fully functioning pediatric pulmonary diagnostic center in Orlando Florida and, as a part of Orlando Pediatric Pulmonary and Sleep Associates, the lab allows for first hand and immediate evaluation and interpretation of pulmonary function tests while the patients are still in the office.

The Children’s Pulmonary function laboratory is an advanced pulmonary function laboratory that performs complete pulmonary function tests including:

Pulmonary function tests are performed on children 6 years of age and older. However, some children as young as 4 years of age have shown the mental aptitude to perform pulmonary function tests correctly.