Status Asthmaticus Treated with Nitrogen Mustard
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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...
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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...
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Though pathological studies have shown that administration of adrenal steroids can cause adrenocortical atrophy in experimental animals (Ingle, 1938 ; Winter et al., 1950 ; Rawls et al., 1954; Holub et al., 1959) and in man (Sprague et al., 1950, 1951 ; Salassa et al., 1953 ; Bennett, 1954 Stoner and Whiteley, 1954), biochemical studies have revealed that the adrenal glands are capable of respo...
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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...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1954
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.4877.1475