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Acute asthma management during SARS-CoV2-pandemic 2020 by Michael Levin; Ignacio J. Ansotegui; Jonathan Bernstein; Yoon-Seok Chang; Manana Chikhladze; Motohiro Ebisawa; Alessandro Fiocchi; Enrico Heffler; Bryan Martin; Mario Morais-Almeida; Nikolaos G. Papadopoulos; David Peden; Gary W.K. Wong is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background The current COVID-19 pandemic has changed many medical practices in order to provide additional protection to both our patients and healthcare providers. In many cases this includes seeing patients through electronic means such as telehealth or telephone rather than seeing them in person. Asthma exacerbations cannot always be treated in this way. ## Problem Current emergency unit asthma guidelines recommend bronchodilators be administered by metered dose inhaler (MDI) and spacer for mild-moderate asthma and include it as a choice even in severe asthma, but many emergency units continue to prefer nebulised therapy for patients who urgently require beta-agonists. The utilization of nebulised therapy potentially increases the risk of aerosolization of the coronavirus. Since nosocomial transmission of respiratory pathogens is a major threat in the context of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, use of nebulised therapy is of even greater concern due to the potential increased risk of infection spread to nearby patients and healthcare workers. ## Practical implications We propose a risk stratification plan that aims to avoid nebulised therapy, when possible, by providing an algorithm
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- Author
- Michael Levin; Ignacio J. Ansotegui; Jonathan Bernstein; Yoon-Seok Chang; Manana Chikhladze; Motohiro Ebisawa; Alessandro Fiocchi; Enrico Heffler; Bryan Martin; Mario Morais-Almeida; Nikolaos G. Papadopoulos; David Peden; Gary W.K. Wong
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)