We examined physician management of patients hospitalized for status asthmaticus at a university hospital. A retrospective review of consecutive admissions for status asthmaticus covering a 13-month period yielded 130 charts for review. We found that practice patterns with respect to documentation of severity of illness, medications, and documentation of efficacy of therapy fell short of the cu...

A comparison of the quantitative anatomy of the bronchi in normal subjects, in status asthmaticus, in chronic bronchitis, and in emphysema The quantitative anatomy of the bronchi has been studied in sudden deaths in normal subjects, in deaths from status asthmaticus and chronic bronchitis, and in patients with emphysema. In the normal bronchi the observed range of values for the percentage volu...

2001;119;1599-1602 Chest Constantine A. Manthous Cases and Review of the Literature : Three * Lactic Acidosis in Status Asthmaticus http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/content/119/5/1599.full.html found online on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information and services can be ) ISSN:0012-3692 http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/site/misc/reprints.xhtml ...

SIR,-A noteworthy point on which I differ from the opinion expressed in your commendable leading article (9 December, p. 563) is in the statement that "physiotherapy has no place in the treatment of status asthmaticus." It has been our custom during the past three years in this hospital (which is part of Helsinki University Central Hospital), in addition to other routine treatment in cases of s...

This case report describes the use of sevoflurane in a 26-year-old woman who presented to a rural critical access hospital emergency department in status asthmaticus and subsequently failed conventional therapy. Although the use of potent inhalation agents in the treatment of refractory status asthmaticus has been documented, there is little written about the use of sevoflurane in this situatio...