Status asthmaticus.

نویسندگان

  • A J Williams
  • S Santiago
  • E B Weiss
  • M Stein
چکیده

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 before presentation [2, 3] . The diagnosis implies the need for immediate hospitalization, frequently with intensive care, and treatment with additional adequate doses of (32-adrenergic therapy along with parenteral corticosteroids . Although asthma was long said to be a nonlethal disease (as Osler's dictum 'asthmatic patients pant into old age' reflects), recent experience has reminded us that this is not so. The `epidemic' of fatal asthma in the middle to late 1960s is recurring now . Death rates reached a nadir in 1977 and have since increased steadily, almost dou©1989 S. Karger AG, Basel 0254-0819/89/0154-0208$2 .75/0

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Acute care

دوره 14-15  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1988