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Telegraph.co.uk |
Doctor's Diary: asthma and preventable death
Telegraph.co.uk This phenomenon of sudden deterioration in asthma was identified by Prof Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick of the Brompton Hospital almost 40 years ago in a landmark paper, “On observing patterns of airflow obstruction in chronic asthma”. She noted two … |
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Tech Times |
70 percent of deaths due to asthma in the UK are preventable: Study
Tech Times In 2012, asthma was responsible for 1,250 deaths in the UK but a large percentage of these appear to have died of needless deaths. In the National Review of Asthma Deaths, doctors from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) analyzed195 asthma-related … Poor care causes needless asthma deaths: Report 800 asthma patients a year die needlessly: Half were given the wrong medication Report calls for an end to complacency around asthma care |
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 Plain Dealer |
Asthma hospital stays preventable with home visits
Plain Dealer CLEVELAND, Ohio — National asthma and housing experts gathered at Case Western Reserve University today to pitch a plan that could drastically reduce childhood hospitalizations. The invitation-only session highlighted a small, grant-supported research … |
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 Telegraph.co.uk |
Asthma: 1000 deaths a year 'preventable'
Telegraph.co.uk However, Dr Saralaya warned: “It can even kill those at the mild end of disease.” He said too many patients skipped regularly using their 'preventer' inhaler … Asthma sufferers on life support 1 in 4 asthma sufferers needs life-support Third of patients with severe asthma admitted to hospital |
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Nation's Emergency Physicians to Public: Asthma Emergencies Are Preventable
PR Newswire (press release) WASHINGTON, March 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Asthma kills thousands of people in the United States each year. Millions more suffer from the disease and that number is on the rise. The nation's emergency physicians treat asthma sufferers on a … |
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