Annals of Intensive Care (Oct 2019)

Management of severe asthma exacerbation: guidelines from the Société Française de Médecine d’Urgence, the Société de Réanimation de Langue Française and the French Group for Pediatric Intensive Care and Emergencies

  • Philippe Le Conte,
  • Nicolas Terzi,
  • Guillaume Mortamet,
  • Fekri Abroug,
  • Guillaume Carteaux,
  • Céline Charasse,
  • Anthony Chauvin,
  • Xavier Combes,
  • Stéphane Dauger,
  • Alexandre Demoule,
  • Thibaut Desmettre,
  • Stephan Ehrmann,
  • Bénédicte Gaillard-Le Roux,
  • Valérie Hamel,
  • Boris Jung,
  • Sabrina Kepka,
  • Erwan L’Her,
  • Mikaël Martinez,
  • Christophe Milési,
  • Élise Morawiec,
  • Mathieu Oberlin,
  • Patrick Plaisance,
  • Robin Pouyau,
  • Chantal Raherison,
  • Patrick Ray,
  • Mathieu Schmidt,
  • Arnaud W. Thille,
  • Jennifer Truchot,
  • Guillaume Valdenaire,
  • Julien Vaux,
  • Damien Viglino,
  • Guillaume Voiriot,
  • Bénédicte Vrignaud,
  • Sandrine Jean,
  • Eric Mariotte,
  • Pierre-Géraud Claret

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13613-019-0584-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

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Abstract Background The French Emergency Medicine Society, the French Intensive Care Society and the Pediatric Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine French-Speaking Group edited guidelines on severe asthma exacerbation (SAE) in adult and pediatric patients. Results The guidelines were related to 5 areas: diagnosis, pharmacological treatment, oxygen therapy and ventilation, patients triage, specific considerations regarding pregnant women. The literature analysis and formulation of the guidelines were conducted according to the Grade of Recommendation Assessment, Development and Evaluation methodology. An extensive literature research was conducted based on publications indexed in PubMed™ and Cochrane™ databases. Of the 21 formalized guidelines, 4 had a high level of evidence (GRADE 1+/−) and 7 a low level of evidence (GRADE 2+/−). The GRADE method was inapplicable to 10 guidelines, which resulted in expert opinions. A strong agreement was reached for all guidelines. Conclusion The conjunct work of 36 experts from 3 scientific societies resulted in 21 formalized recommendations to help improving the emergency and intensive care management of adult and pediatric patients with SAE.

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