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Is ketamine a lifesaving agent in childhood acute severe asthma?
Children with acute severe asthma exacerbation are at risk of developing respiratory failure. Moreover, conventional aggressive management might be futile in acute severe asthma requiring intubation and invasive ventilation. The aim of this review is to detail evidence on the use of ketamine in childhood asthma exacerbations. A search of the MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane databases was performed...
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Introduction Acute severe asthma is one of the most common causes of visits to hospital emergency departments worldwide and accounts for the greater part of the economic and healthcare burden of the disease.1 Failure to appreciate the severity, inadequate emergency treatment, and delay in referral may lead to increased mortality and morbidity.2 Asthma is the most common respiratory emergency in...
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Severe asthma accounts for a small proportion of all asthma in childhood, but consumes a disproportionate amount of healthcare resources, and leads to substantial morbidity and even premature death. Many different symptom patterns can lead to specialist referral with the diagnostic label problematic severe asthma. First, there is a full review to exclude other diagnoses and important comorbid c...
متن کاملHydration in severe acute asthma.
Twenty children were studied during severe attacks of acute asthma to find out how dehydrated they were on admission to hospital. Mean body weight on admission was 97.8% of their reference stable weight seven to 10 days after the attack and in only three children was it less than 95% of the stable weight. Bedside assessment of dehydration was unreliable. The mean packed cell volume was signific...
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Myopathy of insidious onset produced by corticosteroids is well recognised. In recent years acute myopathy has been reported in patients with acute severe asthma treated with 3-4 g of intravenous hydrocortisone a day.1 2 It has been argued that to minimise the risks of this the dose should be no more than 1 g of hydrocortisone a day.2 There is evidence that 1 g/day is an effective regimen.3 We ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: South African Family Practice
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2078-6190,2078-6204
DOI: 10.1080/20786204.2012.10874173