PEDIATRICS Vol. 84 No. 1 July 1989, pp. 111-118
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Hospitalization of Children With Status Asthmaticus: A Review

Warren Richards MD1

1 The Departments of Pediatrics, Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles and University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California

A review of hospital admissions of patients with status asthmaticus at the Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles showed a marked increase in admissions in recent years. Asthma mortality did not increase. Patients tended to be young, boys, and black as compared with patients admitted to a general hospital. Interviews with 100 patients and/or their parents admitted between February and June 1988 indicated that the majority of patients had frequent, severe, and/or disabling symptoms and a significant number were undertreated. Forty-five percent of these patients and 46% of all patients admitted between January 1986 and October 1988 because of status asthmaticus also had sinusitis, otitis, or pneumonitis.

Key Words: status asthmaticus • hospitalization • asthma

Submitted on August 23, 1989
Accepted on January 3, 1989




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