• Am J Emerg Med · Sep 2019

    Initial ED oxygen saturation ≤90% increases the risk of a complicated hospital course in pediatric asthmatics requiring admission.

    • Jay D Fisher, Rishika P Sakaria, Korrina N Siddiqui, Kristopher J Ivey, Lauren Bali, and Kreg Burnette.
    • UNLV School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, United States of America. Electronic address: jay.fisher@unlv.edu.
    • Am J Emerg Med. 2019 Sep 1; 37 (9): 1743-1745.

    AbstractEmergency physicians are responsible for admitting children with asthma who do not respond to initial therapy. We examined the hypothesis that an initial room air pulse oximetry ≤90% elevates the risk of a complicated hospital course in children who require admission with acute asthma.Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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