BACKGROUND The aim was to establish a continuing district based confidential enquiry into deaths from asthma. METHODS A confidential enquiry was conducted in an English health district. Subjects comprised 24 residents of the Norwich health district aged between 16 and 65 years who had died between 1988 and 1991 with asthma as the principal cause of death. RESULTS Twenty one of the patients ...

A population based case control-study was initiated in 1981 to identify risk factors for death from asthma. Over a two year period all deaths in the Auckland population possibly due to asthma, in people less than 60 years of age, were investigated. From the 47 people who died from asthma 44 who had useful reversibility of airways obstruction (records showing greater than 20% variability of peak...

BACKGROUND Near-fatal asthma attacks are life threatening events that often require mechanical ventilation. Extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal (ECCO2R) is, beside extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), a well-established rescue option whenever ventilation gets to its limits. But there seems to be very rare experience with those techniques in avoiding mechanical ventilation in severe ast...

background : asthma is the most common disease in childhood which is considered as the forerunner of the acute diseases and simply can cause disability among the children. since childhood and adolescence are the most important periods of growth and perfection and incidence of asthma can bring about distortion in this process, the present study done aimed to assess the effect of conducting high ...

Advances in mobile computing have paved way for development of several health applications using Smartphone as platform for data acquisition, analysis and presentation. Such areas where mhealth systems have been extensively deployed include monitoring of long-term health conditions like Cardio-Vascular Diseases and pulmonary disorders, as well as detection of changes from baseline measurements ...

Results Asthma awareness test had 11 questions with combination of true/false and descriptive statements. 1. The mean score increased from 55% to 93% after the teaching across all ages (p<0.01). 2. Girls pre-course scores were lower than boys but improved to a similar level of >90% after teaching. 3. Nine and ten year olds showed highest improvement in scores in comparison to other age groups. ...

BACKGROUND Acute asthma is one of the most common medical emergencies in children. Appropriate assessment/treatment and early identification of factors that predict hospitalization are critical for the effective utilization of emergency services. OBJECTIVE To identify risk factors that predict hospitalization and to compare the concordance of the Modified Pulmonary Index Score (MPIS) with the...

BACKGROUND Locally delivered steroids by inhalers or nebulizers have been shown in small trials to be effective in acute asthma attack, but evidence-based data are insufficient to establish their place as routine management of adult asthma attacks. OBJECTIVES To determine the efficacy of nebulized compared to systemic steroids in adult asthmatics admitted to the emergency department following...

In children, bronchial asthma is a common disease and an important cause of morbidity and this disease is on increasing trend in developing countries like India. Smoke produced whether from tobacco or by fuels has got important effects on asthma. Children represent the largest subgroup of the population susceptible to the adverse health effects of air pollution. Air pollution causes irritation ...