Thunderstorm asthma: revealing a hidden at‐risk population

Epidemic thunderstorm asthma (ETSA) refers to large‐scale acute bronchospasm events associated with thunderstorm. The most serious episode ever recorded occurred in Melbourne, Australia, in November 2016, where more than 3500 patients were treated in hospitals and 10 died. Previous work has been focused primarily on patient presentations to emergency departments. The prevalence of individuals with milder, non‐emergent symptoms and who may be at risk of more serious episodes in the future has not previously been explored.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Internal medicine journal (Print)

• Publication date

  2019-01-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/imj.13800PMID 29573176
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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