Emergency room visits spike for children in California with asthma – San Bernardino County Sun

Emergency room visits spike for children in California with asthma
San Bernardino County Sun
Children in California increasingly are flocking to emergency rooms for treatment of asthma, despite millions of dollars spent on programs to control the disease. Statewide, the rates of ER visits for asthma symptoms rose by about 18 percent for

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As more children with asthma visit emergency rooms, Breathmobiles gasp for … – LA Daily News

As more children with asthma visit emergency rooms, Breathmobiles gasp for
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Besides the personal loss Garcia-Lloret feels, the end of the UCLA Breathmobile comes at a time when new data by Kaiser Health News shows that emergency room visit rates by children with asthma rose by 17 percent from 2005 to 2012 for those 5 older …

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Two Doses of the Intravenous Magnesium Sulfate Versus the Standard Single Dose ,With/ Without the Nebulized Budesonide For the Management of the Severe Asthma Exacerbation in the Emergency Room; A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Condition:   Bronchial Asthma
Interventions:   Drug: Intravenous magnesium sulfate;   Drug: Inhaled budesonide;   Drug: normal saline
Sponsor:   Hamad Medical Corporation
Recruiting – verified May 2015

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Women more likely to be hospitalised after asthma emergency care – News-Medical.net


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Women more likely to be hospitalised after asthma emergency care
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US research shows that women who attend the emergency department (ED) with acute asthma are almost twice as likely to be admitted to hospital than men despite several measures of asthma control, treatment and severity being more favourable in women.

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Asthma action plan will help during an emergency – The Salinas Californian


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Asthma action plan will help during an emergency
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DEAR DOCTOR K: My son was recently diagnosed with asthma. His doctor wants to put together an asthma “action plan.” What is that? DEAR READER: Asthma is a complicated and serious disease. It can behave differently from hour to hour and from day to …
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Asthma action plan will help during an emergency – Elko Daily Free Press

Asthma action plan will help during an emergency
Elko Daily Free Press
DEAR READER: Asthma is a complicated and serious disease. It can behave differently from hour to hour and from day to day. A person with asthma needs a plan for what to do at each stage of the disease. I'll describe the elements of the plan in a minute
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