75 deaths in asthmatics prescribed home nebulizers.

Accidental deaths at home in pediatric patients.

Human deaths induced by dog bites, United States, 1974-75.

Take-home naloxone kits preventing overdose deaths.

injected naloxone into a fellow drug user to save his life, she was crouched in a tent in the mountains outside Nelson, British Columbia. Friends in a nearby tent had awoken her with news that one of their companions had overdosed on methadone. Grabbing her flashlight, a bottle of naloxone and a clean syringe, Shaver raced to help. The man had been smoking cocaine and drinking alcohol and metha...

[Metered-dose inhalers with home-made spacers versus nebulizers to treat moderate wheezing attacks in children].

OBJECTIVE To compare the effectiveness of salbutamol administration by metered-dose inhaler with a home-made spacer versus jet nebulizer in children with moderate wheezing attacks. MATERIAL AND METHODS A randomized, single-blinded trial was performed with a convenience sample of children presenting wheezing. The children were enrolled in an emergency room and randomly assigned to one of two t...

Seasonal variations in hospital treatment periods and deaths among adult asthmatics.

The purpose of this study was to examine possible seasonal variations in relations between hospital treatment periods and in deaths (asthma-related and other) among adult asthmatics. Out of a total of 364,871 asthma-induced hospitalization periods (diagnosis No. 493, International Classification of Diseases) recorded in the hospital discharge register maintained by the National Research and Dev...