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...
. The extremes of the scale are “1—no discomfort” and “5—unbearable discomfort,” with three intermediate levels: “light discomfort,”“moderate discomfort,” and “intense discomfort”). In both groups, in case of the presence of a new pressure ulcer, the strategy that can be applied...
This was the only study to address moderate as opposed to severe airflow obstruction, with the pretreatment FEV1 being 1.3 L. In a fair-quality study, Albert et al43 compared intravenous steroids and placebo in patients with chronic bronchitis hospitalized for acute respiratory insufficiency and ...
Beijing Network for Adult Community-Acquired P: Viral etiology of community- acquired pneumonia among adolescents and adults with mild or moderate severity and its relation to age and severity. BMC Infect Dis. 2015;15:89. 34. Mina MJ, Klugman KP. The role of influenza in the severity and ...
https://doi.org/10.1194/jlr.M075614Get rights and content Under a Creative Commons license open accessCysteinyl leukotrienes (CysLTs) are a small family of biological signaling lipids produced by active leukocytes that contribute to diverse inflammatory disease states as a consequence of their engageme...
asthma exacerbations, and moderate hypoxaemia can usually be restored by nasal cannulae at flow rates of 2–4 L/minute or mask by giving modest concentrations of supplemented oxygen.[60] Nevertheless, in acute severe asthma, hypoxaemia is encountered reasonably frequently. In this situation, the ...