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- Roger Harris.
- Royal North Shore Hospital Sydney, University of Sydney, New South Wales. rdharris@doh.health.nsw.gov.au
- Aust Fam Physician. 2002 Sep 1;31(9):802-6.
BackgroundLife threatening asthma is not an uncommon emergency and all doctors need to have an ordered approach to managing this problem both in the surgery and the home.ObjectiveTo develop a plan for the rapid assessment and management of a patient with asthma. The main focus is on severe life threatening asthma and management is based on the equipment and medication a doctor is likely to have available in the surgery.ConclusionThe key to successful treatment of life threatening asthma is a rapid assessment of severity, an early emergency call for an ambulance, oxygen, continuous nebulised beta 2 agonist, corticosteroids and the use of parenteral adrenaline for the patient in extremis.
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