Pediatric Acute Care Simulator Case: Status Asthmaticus
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Status asthmaticus
Status asthmaticus (SA) is a common medical emergency faced by emergency department and intensive care specialists. Timely evaluation and treatment is required to prevent the morbidity and mortality associated with respiratory failure. SA is a severe asthma exacerbation that proves refractory to standard treatment regimens and represents the most extreme end of the asthma spectrum. Research eff...
متن کاملStatus asthmaticus.
Status asthmaticus, or acute severe asthma [ 1 ], is a potentially life-threatening episode of severe asthma failing to respond to usually effective or increasing amounts of inhaled [32-adrenergic agonists and theophylline preparations . Such an acute episode of asthma is often preceded by inadequate control of symptoms over the preceding weeks with more rapid deterioration 24 h immediately bef...
متن کاملCritical Issues in the Treatment of Pediatric Status Asthmaticus
Christopher Schmehil1, Andrey Leonov1, Suzanne M Greydanus-Rutgers2 and Donald E Greydanus1* 1Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, Michigan 2Department of Labor and Delivery, Bronson Methodist Hospital, Kalamazoo, Michigan USA *Corresponding author: Donald E Greydanus, MD, Dr HC (ATHENS), 1Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Ka...
متن کاملContemporary aminophylline use for status asthmaticus in pediatric ICUs.
An abnormally low FEV 1 /FVC ratio is universally accepted as indicative of obstructive lung disease. Clearly, the choice of cutoff to defi ne abnormality is important. The GOLD (Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease) group set the lower limit of normal (LLN) at 0.7 irrespective of age, defi ning GOLD COPD stage I as FEV 1 /FVC below 0.7 and FEV 1 above 80% predicted. 1 In a re...
متن کاملManagement of status asthmaticus.
Mortality Status asthmaticus is a term which is universally used but not uniformly defined. It is generally taken to mean an acute episode of 'bronchospasm', severe enough to cause distress to the patient and which is not relieved by conventional 'bronchodilator' therapy. Is status asthmaticus a transient event in the life of the asthmatic patient; can it be treated as a minor incident? I think...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: MedEdPORTAL
سال: 2009
ISSN: 2374-8265
DOI: 10.15766/mep_2374-8265.1083