Acute Asthma
stimulate airway hyper-responsiveness and intractable bronchial mucosa inflammation (Conley, 2017). Chronic and acute asthma, to some extent, resemble one another in terms of symptoms and elementary treatment. But the key difference between the two is how long the episode lasts. Acute asthma is temporary whilst chronic asthmatic attacks are prolonged and can continue for a long period (MyAsthmaGuide, 2018). Pathmavathi, Subash and Sumangali’s (2013) arterial blood gas (ABG) examination on a total of forty subjects aimed at assessing ABG status among chronic and acute bronchial asthmatics. Acute asthmatics’ typical ABG pattern revealed hypoxaemia accompanied by respiratory acidosis among a fairly… Continue Reading...