Maintenance and reliever therapy (MART) is a treatment for asthma where a single combined inhaler is used for both maintenance and reliever purposes, instead of having separate preventer (brown) and reliever (blue) inhalers. 

This combined treatment approach has many advantages, including:

• effectively reducing inflammation in the lungs, as well as providing quick relief from more severe asthma symptoms or asthma attacks, 
• a reduction in the likelihood of asthma attacks and the need for hospitalisation,
• increased adherence to asthma treatment,
• requiring people with asthma to learn just one inhaler technique and pay for one inhaler, and
• facilitating greener respiratory healthcare by causing less carbon emissions than using SABA along with inhalers.

To support primary care healthcare professionals to understand and implement MART regimens, PCRS has produced a concise, yet informative MART action plan which can be used to effectively introduce patients to MART and support them in using it to successfully manage their asthma.

Download the action plan and start making MART moves for asthma!

Always remember, the best inhaler is the inhaler the patient will use effectively and the inhaler choice should follow a joint decision-making process.

PLEASE NOTE: The digital MART asthma action plan is fully editable online. In order to use all components effectively (specifically the image upload function) please open in Adobe Acrobat Reader where possible.