asthmaemergencyepidemicethnicityhospitalizationIndianrhinitisthunderstormBackground The world's most catastrophic and deadly thunderstorm asthma epidemic struck Melbourne, Australia, on November 21st 2016. Objective Among thunderstorm゛ffected patients presenting to emergency rooms (ERs), we investigated risk ...
On November 21, 2016, the city of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia, experienced an unprecedented and extreme weather event. The event was “thunderstorm asthma,” defined as the sudden onset of asthma symptoms in a large number of people due to a rare interaction between specific t...
Thunderstorm asthma is relatively a rare phenomenon. However, it sharply increases the demand for medical resources resulting in increased prehospital deaths (Andrew et al., 2017). During the 2016 outbreak of thunderstorm asthma in Melbourne, for example, several out-of-hospital deaths were reported...
Thunderstorm asthmaallergic asthmarhinitisryegrassRATIONALE: On November 21, 2016 in Australia, a major thunderstorm-asthma epidemic struck Melbourne with an unprecedented number of emergency presentations, hospital admissions and fatalities. OBJECTIVES: We identified affected patients who presented to The ...
Affected critically ill patients are young, have a high mortality, a short duration of bronchospasm, and a prior diagnosis of asthma is common.doi:10.1016/s1441-2772(23)00969-9Jai N.DarvallDepartment of Intensive Care, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Vic, Australia...
BackgroundEpidemic thunderstorm asthma (ETSA) refers to large-scale acute bronchospasm events associated with thunderstorm. The most serious episode ever recorded occurred in Melbourne, Australia, in November 2016, where more than 3500 patients were treated in hospitals and 10 died. Previous work has...
Introduction/Aim: Thunderstorm Asthma is an infrequent global phenomenon which recently struck Melbourne, Australia, leading to 9 deaths and many airways-related hospital presentations. We aimed to identify characteristics of persons symptomatic during the event and not previously known to be at risk....
Conclusion: This study supports the view that GP services made a substantial contribution to the emergency response on the evening of the TA epidemic that occurred in Melbourne in 2016. Demands on resources were considerable during and after the epidemic yet GP staff showed great resilience ...
On November 21, 2016, the city of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia, experienced an unprecedented and extreme weather event. The event was “thunderstorm asthma,” defined as the sudden onset of asthma symptoms in a large number of people due to a rare interaction between specific ty...
We sought to describe the characteristics of patients attended by emergency medical services (EMS) during the largest global epidemic of TA which occurred in Melbourne on 21/11/2016.Methods A retrospective observational study of electronic EMS patient care records was conducted for all cases occurring...