Asthma changes at a pediatric intensive care unit after 10 years: Observational study

• Published in: Annals of thoracic medicine 2015-10, Vol.10 (4), p.243-248
• Main Authors: Al-Eyadhy, Ayman A, Temsah, Mohamad-Hani, Alhaboob, Ali A N, Aldubayan, Abdulmalik K, Almousa, Nasser A, Alsharidah, Abdulrahman M, Alangari, Mohammed I, Alshaya, Abdulrahman M
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Asthma; Care and treatment; Childhood asthma; children; Children & youth; critical care; Diagnosis; epidemiology; Hospitals; Intensive care; Mortality; noninvasive ventilation; Original; Patient outcomes; pediatric; Pediatrics; Regression analysis; Respiration; Risk factors; Saudi; status asthmaticus; Ventilation
• ISSN: 1817-1737; 1998-3557
• DOI: 10.4103/1817-1737.165302

To describe the change in the management, and outcome of children with acute severe asthma (ASA) admitted to Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at tertiary institute, as compared to previously published report in 2003. This is a retrospective observational study. All consecutive pediatric ASA patients who were admitted to PICU during the study period were included. The data were extracted from PICU database and medical records. The Cohort in this study (2013 Cohort) was compared with the Cohort of ASA, which was published in 2003 from the same institution (2003 Cohort). In comparison to previous 2003 Cohort, current Cohort (2013) revealed higher mean age (5.5 vs. 3.6 years; P ≤ 0.001), higher rate of PICU admission (20.3% vs. 3.6%; P ≤ 0.007), less patients who received maintenance inhaled steroids (43.3% vs. 62.4%; P ≤ 0.03), less patients with pH