Emergency Asthma

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.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Where Have We Been? The History of Acute Asthma, Barry E. Brenner Where Might We Go? Trends in Emergency Asthma Research, Barry E. Brenner Pathophysiology Asthma Production and Biochemistry, Phillip L. Rice Jr. Asthma: Immunology and the Inflammatory Response, David M. Lang and Donald G. Raible Epidemiology Epidemiology of Asthma, Carlos A. Camargo Jr. and Lynne D. Richardson Provocative Factors for Emergency Department Visits Allergic Asthma, Michael A. Kaliner Rhinitis, Sinusitis, and Acute Asthma, Susan M. Brugman Respiratory Infections: The Major Cause, Jill M. Baren The Relationship Between Acute Asthma and Air Pollution, George D. Thurston and Mark J. Leber Premenstrual Asthma, Emil M. Skobeloff Nocturnal Asthma, Monica Kraft and Richard J. Martin Urban Asthma, Robert Bristow and Harold H. Osborn Clinical Manifestations The Clinical Presentation of Acute Asthma in Adults and Children, Barry E. Brenner, Joseph Adrian Tyndall, and Ellen F. Crain Pulmonary Function Testing in the Emergency Department, Robert Silverman and Steven M. Scharf Laboratory, Roentgenographic, and EKG Evaluation of Acute Asthma, Rita Kay Cydulka and Mona Shah Noninvasive Monitoring of Asthma, Brian T. Williams and Charles B. Cairns Fatal Asthma, Kim Guishard Management National and International Guidelines for the Emergency Management of Adult Asthma, Richard M. Nowak Management with Inhaled 2-Agonists, Theodore J. Gaeta Epinephrine, Barry E. Brenner Aminophylline, Charles L. Emerman and Mary H. Stewart Steroids, Robert Silverman Anticholinergics and Asthma, Jill P. Karpel and Richard M. Nowak Magnesium, Robert Silverman Medical Management of Severe Acute Asthma, Edward A. Panacek and Charles V. Pollack Jr. Intubation of the Asthma Patient, Martin S. Kohn Management of Acute Asthma in Children, Richard J. Scarfone and Susan Fuchs Acute Asthma in Pregnancy, Richard Sinert, Karen L. Staville, and Jin H. Han Out-of-Hospital Asthma Care, Samuel J. Stratton The Severe Asthmatic: Intubated and Difficult to Ventilate, Paul Mayo and Michael Stavros Radeos Disposition from the Emergency Department The Acute Asthmatic in the Emergency Department: To Admit or Discharge?, Barry E. Brenner and Kerry Powell The Acute Asthmatic in the Pediatric Emergency Department: To Admit or Discharge?, Jill M. Baren Asthma and Emergency Department Observation Units, Eric S. Nadel, Louis G. Graff, and Michael F. McDermott Follow-Up and Prevention of Relapse and Follow-Up in Adults After Disposition from the ED, Rita Kay Cydulka and Mona Shah Follow-Up and Prevention of Relapse in Children After Disposition from the ED, Ellen F. Crain Compliance Issues in Acute Asthma, Paul Mayo Access, the Emergency Department, and Asthma, Lynne D. Richardson