Most patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with acute asthma will have some, if not significant, relief of respiratory distress following treatment. The majority of patients are discharged to home; however, a significant portion of patients relapse and require urgent medical treatment....
Asthma is a respiratory disease characterized by a combination of airway inflammation, bronchoconstriction, bronchial hyperresponsiveness, and variable outflow obstruction, with clinical presentations ranging from mild to life鈥恡hreatening. Standardized ED treatment can improve patient outcomes, including ...
Conclusions: We identified potentially preventable issues in about a third of patients (most of whom had mild to moderate asthma) who recurrently presented to EDs for treatment. The remainder of the participants sought emergency asthma treatment appropriately after failing to respond to medical care, ...
The increasing global incidence of asthma and the availability of national guidelines for asthma treatment present an opportunity for emergency care providers to improve the delivery of care to patients. Despite the fact that the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) published national gui...
Although there’s no cure, there are asthma medications and treatment options available to help those with asthma manage the disease. Most live normal, active lives and suffer few symptoms. When To Seek Medical Help For An Asthmatic Reaction ...
for provision of a written AAP (WAAP), including a strong recommendation for the addition of an ICS prescription for children discharged home after acute treatment in the ED.26 As many as 67% of pediatric ED asthma patients treated for an exacerbation were classified with persistent asthma, and...
asthma patients in the observation group were higher than those in the control group(P0.05).The rate of heart rate and respiratory rate after treatment was lower than that of the control group(P0.05),and there was no statistical difference in the incidence of adverse reactions between the ...
This study describes the development and implementation of a hospital pharmacy based program used to improve asthma management in individuals who lack the skills necessary to manage their asthma and, as a result, present to the emergency room for treatment.Pharmacists will prov...
told Medscape in an interview. Examples systems that categorize the severity of asthma and provide recommendations for appropriate treatment based on that severity are the Global Initiative on Asthma (GINA) 2002 classification system, as well as that developed by the National Asthma Education and Prev...
This randomized trial enrolled children aged 1 to 18 years, with persistent asthma not previously prescribed a controller medication, and who were being discharged after ED asthma treatment. Intervention subjects received a 1-month prescription for an inhaled corticosteroid (fluticasone or budesonide by ...