Living with asthma can be a struggle especially for people with active lifestyle. When you have asthma, one of the most significant things to do is to constantly monitor your blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) on regular basis. Oxygen saturation is the percentage of oxygen in the blood, which is used by physicians as important indicator of body vital health. A very effective device for medical control of asthma and to measure oxygen in body is the LM-900 Pulse Oximeter Medical Landon’s fingertips. (more…)
How to properly make clinical diagnosis of acute severe asthma? There is little doubt of the accuracy of current asthma testing ...
Asthma is a frightening condition. I have lived with asthma symptoms for 17 years and the thought of an allergy induced asthma atta ...
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How to properly make clinical diagnosis of acute severe asthma? There is little doubt of the accuracy of current asthma testing. This is because most patients had bring out an established asthma diagnosis from prior regular asthma treatment, before presenting it to Asthma Emergency Department. We can see that most of patients had physical presentation: sitting up right, had profusely diaphoretic, only manage to speak only a few words at a time, and obvious respiratory distress. We can see varying respiratory rate on most patients. Hyperventilating is common in proportion to the severity of asthma attack. On the other hand, patients with hypoventilation is an indication of impending respiratory arrest. (more…)
The role of oral and inhaled corticosteroids in the management of acute asthma is well known. This study compared the effects of in ...
In 2004, there were 2.4 million children aged 5 to 14 years, or 5.9% of this population group, with a self-reported asthma atta ...
Asthma is a frightening condition. I have lived with asthma symptoms for 17 years and the thought of an allergy induced asthma atta ...
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