Treatment, outcomes and costs of asthma exacerbations in Chilean children: a prospective multicenter observational study.

Objective: To describe potential regional variations in therapies for severe asthma exacerbations in Chilean children and estimate the associated health expenditures.

Methods: Observational prospective cohort study in 14 hospitals over a one-year period. Children five years of age or older were eligible for inclusion.

Hospitalizations for asthma exacerbation in Chilean children: A multicenter observational study.

Background: Asthma hospitalization rates in Chilean children have increased in the last 14 years, but little is known about the factors associated with this.

Objective: Describe clinical characteristics of children hospitalized for asthma exacerbation.

Methods: Observational prospective cohort study in 14 hospitals.

Autoimmune pulmonary proteinosis in a Chilean teenager, a rare aetiology of interstitial lung disease.

Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is rare and encompasses a heterogeneous group of diseases, and is even rarer in children than in adults. ILDs compromise more than 100 different entities, including pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP). There are many causes of PAP in children, including surfactant protein gene mutations (SFTPB, SFTPC, ABCA3, TTF-1), GMCSF receptor mutations and antigranulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor autoantibodies.

[Analysis of a clinical ethics consultation experience in intensive care].

Background: Very few patients are presented to ethics committees, and individual ethics consultations are a response to this situation. At the intensive care unit (ICU) in Clínica Alemana, Santiago Chile, an ethics consultation system was organized coordinated with the ethics committee.

Aim: To report an evaluation of this ethics consultation system.