Albecker, David Glen Bouder, T Franklin Lewis, B
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The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma
A severe asthma exacerbation is called status asthmaticus when symptoms worsen despite conventional medical treatment in the hospital. If arterial blood gas (ABG) values deteriorate and this is accompanied by respiratory muscle fatigue, the patient will require mechanical ventilation. However, mechanical ventilation of the severe asthmatic presents...
Weinberger, Stanley J Cowan, Kelly J Robinson, Keith J Pellegrino, Christine A Frankowski, Barbara L Chmielewski, Michael V Shaw, Judith S Harder, Valerie S
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The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma
Pediatric asthma is a common, relapsing-remitting, chronic inflammatory airway disease that when uncontrolled often leads to substantial patient and health care system burden. Improving management of asthma in primary care can help patients stay well controlled. The Vermont Child Health Improvement Program (VCHIP) developed a quality improvement (Q...
Nannini, Luis Javier
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After 25 years of GINA, we need an overarching strategy. The resounding changes in GINA 2019 should be accompanied by another major change in general strategy of asthma management. The concept of control asthma and step strategy was established in 1997 by GINA; but still there is a great gap between GINA objectives and outcomes. O'Byrne and colleag...
Frey, Sean M Contento, Nicholas C Halterman, Jill S
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To assess the feasibility of nurse-delivered asthma education for caregiver/child dyads in a busy clinic setting, and measure the preliminary effectiveness of the intervention. We conducted a pilot study of nurse-delivered asthma education in a busy outpatient clinic. We enrolled a convenience sample of children (7-16 years) with uncontrolled persi...
Swann, Julie L Griffin, Paul M Keskinocak, Pinar Bieder, Ian Yildirim, Fatma Melike Nurmagambetov, Tursynbek Hsu, Joy Seeff, Laura Singleton, Christa-Marie
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Priorities of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 6|18 Initiative include outpatient asthma self-management education (ASME) and home-based asthma visits (home visit) as interventions for children with poorly-controlled asthma. ASME and home visit intervention programs are currently not widely available. This project was to assess the ...
Joseph, Christine L M Mahajan, Prashant Buzzelli-Stokes, Stephanie Jacobsen, Gordon Johnson, Dayna A Duffy, Elizabeth Williams, Renee Havstad, Suzanne Zoratti, Edward Ownby, Dennis R
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The recruitment setting plays a key role in the evaluation of behavioral interventions. We evaluated a behavioral intervention for urban adolescents with asthma in three randomized trials conducted separately in three different settings over the course of 8 years. We hypothesized that characteristics of trial participants recruited from the ED and ...
Coşkun, Orhan Ercan, Nazli Bostanci, Ilknur
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Asthma is the most common chronic inflammatory disease of childhood, but there are no useful and easily accessible laboratory tests routinely used in the diagnosis and follow-up of this disease in children. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the roles of white blood cell (WBC) count, platelet count, mean platelet volume (MPV), and eosinophi...
Chen, Li-Chang Zeng, Guan-Sheng Wu, Ling-Ling Zi, Mei Fang, Ze-Kui Fan, Hui-Zhen Yu, Hua-Peng
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To evaluate the diagnostic value of fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) and maximum mid-expiratory flow (MMEF) for differentiating cough variant asthma (CVA) from chronic cough in patients with or without allergic rhinitis. In total, 328 patients with chronic cough who underwent spirometry and FeNO testing were consecutively included in the retr...
Amegadzie, Joseph Emil Gorgui, Jessica Acheampong, Lily Gamble, John-Michael Farrell, Jamie Gao, Zhiwei
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To determine the safety and effectiveness of current pharmacotherapies consisting of long-acting beta2-agonist (LABA) and/or inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) in patients with asthma-COPD overlap. A systematic search was conducted using the PubMed, EMBASE, and Web of Science databases up to June 2018. Only studies comparing the safety and effectiveness...
Brooks, Cassandra C Martin, Lisa J Pilipenko, Valentina He, Hua LeMasters, Grace K Lockey, James E Bernstein, David I Ryan, Patrick H Khurana Hershey, Gurjit K Biagini Myers, Jocelyn M
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We previously reported that children exposed to secondhand smoke (SHS) that carried variants in the NAT1 gene had over two-fold higher hair cotinine levels. Our objective was to determine if NAT1 polymorphisms confer increased risk for developing asthma in children exposed to SHS. White participants in the Cincinnati Childhood Allergy and Air Pollu...