Profile of asthmatic patients assisted on the emergency of Hospital Geral de Nova Iguaçu (HGNI), NOVA IguaÇu, Brasil
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Background Asthma is a highly prevalent disease on the emergency services. However, is notable the difficulty of the public services to deal with this type of patients, since part of them have recurrent exacerbations. We aim to describe the profile of the patients older than 12 years old admitted to a regional reference emergency department (ED) presenting bronchospasm (ICD: J45 and J42) in the HGNI from January/2008 to March/ 2014.
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دوره 8 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015