Emergency room assessment and treatment of patients with acute asthma. Adequacy of the conventional approach

Am J Med. 1978 Apr;64(4):622-8. doi: 10.1016/0002-9343(78)90582-x.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Acute Disease
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Airway Obstruction / drug therapy
  • Airway Obstruction / physiopathology
  • Aminophylline / therapeutic use
  • Asthma / drug therapy*
  • Asthma / physiopathology
  • Bronchodilator Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Carbon Dioxide / blood
  • Emergency Service, Hospital*
  • Epinephrine / therapeutic use
  • Female
  • Forced Expiratory Volume
  • Humans
  • Isoproterenol / therapeutic use
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Oxygen / blood
  • Time Factors

Substances

  • Bronchodilator Agents
  • Carbon Dioxide
  • Aminophylline
  • Isoproterenol
  • Oxygen
  • Epinephrine