Thorax 2005;60:985-986
EDITORIAL
Paediatric respiratory mortality
Paediatric respiratory mortality: past triumphs, future challenges
Correspondence to:
Professor G Russell
Department of Child Health, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB9 2ZD, UK; libra@ifb.co.uk
Radical new ideas are needed to ensure that deaths from respiratory diseases in children continue to fall
Keywords: all cause mortality; respiratory deaths; bronchiolitis; pneumonia; cystic fibrosis; asthma; children
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The invitation to comment on a paper that reports changes which occurred during a period that coincided, within a year or two, with my career as a consultant paediatrician presents me with an irresistible temptation to reminisce. At medical school in the late 1950s I learned that pneumonia, one time captain of the men of death, had responded dramatically first to sulphonamides and then to penicillin, but that some deaths were still "inevitable"—a phrase much used at that time to excuse our inability to manage conditions that we did not fully understand. Asthma was common in children but was considered to be an unusual cause of death, although it was responsible for the first death I encountered as a paediatric senior house officer. In the minds of my teachers asthma was readily distinguished from bronchitis and, to this day, I can replicate a table listing the differences
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