[Acute asthma and its costs of care at an emergency service].

Background: The request in the urgency service for attention in acute asthma is determined by multiple factors as the medical handling, the constancy and the pursuance of the patient in the adequate follow up of the treatment, the climate, the food hygienic habits and the allergies.

Objective: To determine in one year period, the frequency, recurrence of medical attention for acute asthma and the cost in the hospital urgency service of second level in medical attention.

Material And Methods: We made an analysis of a secondary study done in 1999 in pediatric patients younger than 16 years with diagnosis of acute asthma.

[Pattern-profile of emergency consultations of children in acute asthmatic crisis].

Background: Asthma is one of the most frequent illnesses in the pediatric age, the exacerbations account for one of the main consult causes to the emergency services.

Objective: To determine the frequency of the consultation demand and the recurrence of patients with acute crisis of asthma.

Material And Method: A transverse study, performed at the service of pediatric emergencies, included pediatric patients with acute crisis of asthma from January to December, 2000.