Objectives: To provide physicians with current guidelines for the diagnosis and optimal
management of asthma in children and adults, including pregnant women and the elderly, in …

Background A reliable, valid, and easy-to-use assessment of the degree of wheeze-
associated dyspnoea is important to provide individualised treatment for children with acute …

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the major pathogen responsible for acute bronchiolitis in
infancy. However, evaluation of the relative importance of rhinovirus or multiple viral …

Background. Recent studies have shown that the use of parenteral corticosteroids in the
emergency department decreases the hospitalization rate for patients with acute asthma. We …

Objective: To elaborate and validate a Preschool Respiratory Assessment Measure (PRAM)
that would accurately reflect the severity of airway obstruction and the response to treatment …

Objectives: In the absence of a validated “user‐friendly” method of scoring asthma severity,
the authors derived the pulmonary score (PS). The purpose of this study was to begin …

Objective: The objective of this trial was to determine the efficacy of frequent nebulized
ipratropium added to high-dose albuterol therapy in children with severe asthma. Methods …

Objective: The goal of this report is to review available modalities for assessing and
managing acute asthma exacerbations in pediatric patients, including some that are not …

Objective. Describe the psychometric properties of the Children's Health Survey for Asthma
(CHSA)—a condition-specific, self-report, functional health measure for parents of children 5 …

Cough variant asthma is an occult form of asthma in which the only sign or symptom is
chronic cough. It is a common problem amongst all ages that frequently goes unrecognized …