The treatment of bronchial asthma in perioperative period / 中国实用内科杂志

ABSTRACT

Bronchial asthma is defined as a chronic inflammatory airway disease in response to a wide variety of provoking stimuli.Over 200 million people in the world are affected with asthma.Because the incidence of asthma appears to be increasing,the importance of proper perioperative management of persons with asthma will also continue to increase.Patients with asthma are thought to be at high risk for pulmonary complications to develop during the perioperative period,and these complications may lead to serious morbidity.So it is very important to control asthma,to prevent and treat pulmonary complications for increasing operational success rate.