Emergency Asthma (Hardbound - 1999)

About the Book
This landmark work represents the first book focusing on the acute asthmatic in the emergency department. This superb reference provides a wide range of practical yet thorough, state of the art perspectives on the evaluation and treatment of acute asthma. It features a unique collaboration between authorities in emergency medicine, intensive care, pulmonology, pediatrics, allergy and immunology, and basic scientists. It is the one book that anybody who treats patients with acute asthma will reach for again and again.
Including 37 chapters with contributions from over 45 prominent experts who actively care for asthmatic emergencies, Emergency Asthma

clarifies the definition and problems in diagnosis of acute asthma in the emergency department

evaluates various factors resulting in visits to hospital emergency departments

updates assessment of illness severity

includes newest and latest treatments, magnesium, ipratropium, heliox, ketamine

explains when and how to intubate the acute asthmatic

tells how to manage the refractory asthmatic: intubated but still not ventilated

thoroughly discusses asthma in children as well as adults

elucidates admission and discharge decisions

discusses the problems of relapse in the emergency department

investigates the epidemiology of acute asthma, especially in the inner city

describes special problems in acute asthma, such as out-of-hospital care and the pregnant asthmatic

covers the history of asthma

develops directions in asthma research

includes the results of the recent emergency department based Multi-Center Asthma Research Collaborations

and much more
With over 2600 references and over 200 tables, drawings, and photographs, Emergency Asthma will be welcomed by specialists in emergency medicine, critical care, pulmonology, allergy-immunology, family medicine, pediatrics, and internal medicine; residents in these respective fields; respiratory therapy; and medical and respiratory therapy students.