title: Emergency management of acute adult asthma.
abstract: Despite advances in understanding the pathophysiology of acute asthma and the development of new, effective therapies, patients still die. While physicians agree that most asthma deaths could be prevented if patients were treated adequately, evidence suggests that both patients and physicians continue to underestimate the severity of asthma attacks and delay adequate treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre.
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Grunfeld
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ho
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D001249:Asthma / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D004630:Emergencies; D006801:Humans; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D012720:Severity of Illness Index