Background: Asthma is one of the most common chronic medical conditions affecting around 300 million people worldwide. It is a disorder of the airways characterized by recurrent symptoms of airway obstruction and inflammation. Invasive mechanical ventilation for patients admitted to the hospital with asthma is challenging with higher complications and higher rates of patient-ventilator asynchrony, […]

Background: Intubation is both an important outcome measure along the spectrum of all respiratory illnesses and a marker of disease severity. Time of intubation (TOI) is an important point to identify in the electronic health record (EHR) as it allows researchers to study the association of pre and post-intubation variables with mortality and other relevant […]

Case Presentation: A 61 yo female with a medical history significant for chronic pancreatitis, hypertension, brain aneurysm, and cerebrovascular accident presented to the ED for shortness of breath. She was previously admitted to an outside hospital with shortness of breath secondary to ACE-I induced angioedema, during which period she was emergently intubated due to diffuse […]