Icu-Admitted Asthma

BOSTON — ICU patients with an eosinophilic asthma phenotype had longer ICU and hospital stays compared with patients without an eosinophilic asthma type, according to an abstract presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

BOSTON — ICU patients with comorbid asthma with hypocapnia showed a significantly higher in-hospital mortality rate and intubation requirement than patients without hypocapnia, according to an abstract presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting.