title: Acute asthma attack: severity criteria.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesia and Resuscitation, Sacro Cuore Chatolic University, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Conti
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Polidori
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Liberati
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pengue
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: de Berardinis
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D001249:Asthma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors