Acute adult asthma - assessment of severity and management and comparison with British Thoracic Society Guidelines. Respir Med 1999; 93: 8-10.Hart SR, Davidson AC. Acute adult asthma: assessment of severity and management and comparison with British Thoracic Society Guidelines. Respir Med 1999;93:...
British Thoracic Society (BTS) Asthma Guidelines (Thorax, 1993) recommend that patients should have some control over the management of their disease. They make recommendations regarding when patients should initiate treatment changes....
Asthma reviews (including self management plan and asthma education) were performed in 88.9% of patients, compared to 16% previously. Patients were recommended primary care follow up and had arranged secondary care follow up in 80 and 93.3% of admissions, compared to 19 and 37% previously. ...
P149Designing a management plan: a mixed methods approach to exploring patient journeys in children with severe and recurrent wheeze Introduction Management plans, while recommended nationally to reduce burden of asthma on individuals and healthcare systems, are poorly and infrequently used (BTS/SIGN 20...
Decisions about how to treat patients with acute exacerbations of obstructive airways disease—chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma or mixed diagnoses—often require an understanding of prognosis. This depends on the severity of the acute deterioration and the patient's functional reserve...
5. Patients entering the hospital with asthma or cardiogenic pulmonary edema; 6. Patients with tracheostomy; 7. Patients receiving NIV only for palliation of symptoms (e.g., dyspnea relief). These patients belong to category 3 as defined by the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) ...
When parenteral and oral steroids have been compared in the management of acute asthma in pediatric patients, it has not been possible to show an advantage to parenteral administration.47,48 Risks of therapy The adverse effects of systemic corticosteroids can be categorized as reversible and non...
Acute exacerbations of asthma are responsible for a large proportion of hospital attendances in children. Their severity can be classified as mild, moderate, severe or life-threatening (using the SIGN/BTS criteria8). Regular use of a leukotriene receptor antagonist such as montelukast has been show...
BTS guidelines for the management of community acquired pneumonia in childhood. Thorax. 2002;57(suppl 1):i1–i24. 44. Liu C, Xiao Y, Zhang J, Ren L, Li J, Xie Z, Xu B, Yang Y, Qian S, Wang J, et al. Adenovirus infection in children with acute lower respiratory tract ...
Differential diagnosis of non-traumatic spontaneous pneumothorax includes: pneumonia, acute asthma exacerbation, bronchitis, pulmonary embolism, aortic dissection, costochondritis, acute coronary syndrome, anxiety or panic attack, diaphragmatic injuries, GERD, esophageal spasm, Mallory-Weiss tear, Boerhaave's ...