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Deaths Due to Childhood Asthma

Are They Preventable?

David W. Wood

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th and Spruce, Philadelphia, Pa.

Harold J. Lecks

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Seven cases of death in patients with severe asthma are presented. The cause of death in asthmatic children is discussed under the following headings: mucus plugs, insufficient treatment, infection, aspiration, concomitant disease, oversedation, theophylline toxicity, overuse of metered dose pressurized aerosols, inadequate steroid therapy, and sudden cardiopulmonary arrest.

The authors conclude that asthmatic deaths are preventable.

Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 15, No. 8, 677-687 (1976)
DOI: 10.1177/000992287601500804
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