Acute asthma attack: severity criteria.
The authors briefly review the main risk factors for fatal asthma, near-fatal asthma, rapid onset asthma and slow onset asthma. The most recent data in the international literature are also shortly reviewed and discussed.
Conti
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Department of Anesthesia and Resuscitation, Sacro Cuore Chatolic University, Rome, Italy.
Costa
R
R
Polidori
L
L
Liberati
Q
Q
Pengue
L
L
de Berardinis
G M
GM
D000208:Acute Disease; D001249:Asthma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors