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A 26-year-old woman with known asthma presents with increasing wheeze and shortness of breath. Peak expiratory flow is 45 percent of her best. She is speaking in sentences and has a respiratory rate of 22 per minute, pulse 100 per minute and oxygen saturation 96 percent on air. What is the most appropriate initial management in primary care?

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