Clinical Reality of Asthma Death and Near-fatal Cases, in a Department of Pediatrics of a Japanese Chest Hospital
Asthmatic deaths have shown a tendency to decrease in National Fukuoka Hospital. According to our analysis of asthma death and near-fatal asthma, the risk factor for death was considered as follows : low compliance, underestimation of severity (by patient or family), becoming used to attacks through...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2005-01-01
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| Series: | Allergology International |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1323893015309990 |
| Summary: | Asthmatic deaths have shown a tendency to decrease in National Fukuoka Hospital. According to our analysis of asthma death and near-fatal asthma, the risk factor for death was considered as follows : low compliance, underestimation of severity (by patient or family), becoming used to attacks through experiencing many attacks, insufficient knowledge about attacks, overuse of β-stimulant metered-dose inhaler, etc. One of the reasons for the decrease in asthma death was thought to be the regular usage of many anti-asthmatic drugs especially inhaled corticosteroid. |
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| ISSN: | 1323-8930 |