Near-Fatal Asthma

By Mark D. Siegel, MD, FCCP

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Introduction
Epidemiology

• Table 1

Pathogenesis & Pathology

• Figure 1

Pathophysiology
Clinical Presentation & Initial Evaluation

• Figure 2
• Table 2

Management

• ICU Admission
• Bronchodilators
• Corticosteroids
• Adjunct & Experimental Therapy

Mechanical Ventilation

• Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation
• Intubation & Mechanical Ventilation
• Dynamic Hyperinflation
• Figure 3
• Figure 4
• Figure 5
• Ventilation Strategies
• Figure 6
• Figure 7
• Complications

Outcome & Follow-up
Summary

References

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