Emergency Asthma

Represents the first book focusing on the acute asthmatic in the emergency department. Provides a wide range of practical yet thorough, state-of-the-art perspectives on the evaluation and treatment of acute asthma. Features a unique collaboration among more than 45 authorities in emergency medicine, intensive care, pulmonology, pediatrics, allergy and immunology, and basic scientists.

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

Review :
"From the Series Introduction This outstanding book is required reading for all those involved with treating acute asthma. It should be in every ED library. "-Michael Kaliner, M.D., Director, Institute for Allergy and Asthma From the Foreword" Readers of this book will be able to answer many of the common, and not so common, questions about the management of this disease that is omnipresent, difficult to define, difficult to manage, and difficult to prevent. This book provides an important discussion of the present state of knowledge about this serious disease, especially in the context of the emergency department. "-Peter Rosen, M.D., Residency Director, University of California San Diego Emergency Medicine Residency The book offers information that appeals to both clinicians and asthma researchers." a must for academic ED libraries and for those emergency clinicians and researchers have a special interest in asthma."- Annals of Emergency Medicine "an important addition to the references available in any hospital emergency department that cares for patients with acute, severe asthma. The editor has done a nice job of compiling a group of chapters covering a wide range of topics pertaining to emergency asthma. "- Respiratory Care