The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma
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Clinical Trial
Utility of portable spirometry in a pediatric emergency department in children with acute exacerbation of asthma.
The primary purpose of this study was to determine if portable spirometers can be successfully used in an emergency department (ED) in children with an acute exacerbation of asthma. The secondary purpose of this study was to determine if a validated clinical asthma score (CAS) correlates with the spirometry results in children with an acute exacerbation of asthma. ⋯ Many children are incapable of using portable spirometry for the evaluation of acute exacerbations of asthma in the ED. The clinical asthma scoring system demonstrated poor correlation with portable spirometry measurements in terms of severity classification.