Clinical Outcomes After Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure Treatment for Acute Asthma Exacerbations | Zendy

Christopher D. Golden | Zendy; Meng Xu | Zendy; Cristina Estrada | Zendy; Donald H. Arnold | Zendy

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Clinical Outcomes After Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure Treatment for Acute Asthma Exacerbations

Author(s) -

Christopher D. Golden,

Meng Xu,

Cristina Estrada,

Donald H. Arnold

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

jama pediatrics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.004

H-Index - 183

eISSN - 2168-6211

pISSN - 2168-6203

DOI - 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2014.2767

Subject(s) - medicine , asthma , positive airway pressure , asthma exacerbations , intensive care medicine , airway , anesthesia , obstructive sleep apnea

Clinical Outcomes After Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure Treatment for Acute Asthma Exacerbations Guidelines for the management of acute asthma exacerbations recommend noninvasive ventilation as an “experimental approach for treatment of respiratory failure due to severe asthma exacerbation.”1(p398) Clinicians in our tertiary pediatric emergency department have the option to use bilevel positive airway pressure (BiPAP) as treatment for children with asthma exacerbations who have no signs of respiratory failure. We sought to examine whether these patients have improved clinical outcomes.

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