Twenty-one Year Trends in the Treatment of Pediatric Acute Severe Asthma by Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Program Directors

The National Heart, Blood, and Lung Institute Asthma Guidelines were published in 1991, and revised in 1997 and 2007. In 1995, and again in 2016, we surveyed US residency programs directors (PDs) in pediatric critical care (PDs-PCC) and pediatric emergency medicine (PDs-PEM) regarding the treatment of childhood acute severe asthma, for initial management (IM) and treatment failure (TF). Treatment trends were analyzed.