Ten years of asthma admissions to adult critical care units in England and Wales.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe the patient demographics, outcomes and trends of admissions with acute severe asthma admitted to adult critical care units in England and Wales.

Design

10-year, retrospective analysis of a national audit database.

Setting

Secondary care: adult, general critical care units in the UK.

Participants

830 808 admissions to adult, general critical care units.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Demographic data including age and sex, whether the patient was invasively ventilated or not, length of stay (LOS; both in the critical care unit and acute hospital), survival (both critical care unit and acute hospital) and time trends across the 10-year period.

Results

Over the 10-year period, there were 11 948 (1.4% of total) admission

SUBMITTER: Gibbison B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3780316 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature