A TWENTY YEAR EVOLVING PROTOCOL TO PREVENT DEATH DURING STATUS ASTHMATICUS

Death in status asthmaticus: a clinical analysis of eighteen cases.

Status asthmaticus in children: a one-year study.

50 children were admitted on 72 occasions during one year in status asthmaticus, defined as wheezing not relieved by two doses of bronchodilator 4 hours apart. At least one-third of children were hypercapnoeic on admission. They were managed with either oral prednisolone and nebulised salbutamol. Those with peak expiratory flow rates of greater than 25% expected for height were satisfactorily m...

Status asthmaticus

Status asthmaticus (SA) is a common medical emergency faced by emergency department and intensive care specialists. Timely evaluation and treatment is required to prevent the morbidity and mortality associated with respiratory failure. SA is a severe asthma exacerbation that proves refractory to standard treatment regimens and represents the most extreme end of the asthma spectrum. Research eff...

Status asthmaticus.

Status asthmaticus, or acute severe asthma [ 1 ], is a potentially life-threatening episode of severe asthma failing to respond to usually effective or increasing amounts of inhaled [32-adrenergic agonists and theophylline preparations . Such an acute episode of asthma is often preceded by inadequate control of symptoms over the preceding weeks with more rapid deterioration 24 h immediately bef...

Management of status asthmaticus.

Mortality Status asthmaticus is a term which is universally used but not uniformly defined. It is generally taken to mean an acute episode of 'bronchospasm', severe enough to cause distress to the patient and which is not relieved by conventional 'bronchodilator' therapy. Is status asthmaticus a transient event in the life of the asthmatic patient; can it be treated as a minor incident? I think...