Clinical Study
Pulmonary Function Tests in Emergency Department Pediatric Patients with Acute Wheezing/Asthma Exacerbation
Table 1
Summarized demographic data for 40 patients.
| Demographics | Admitted | Discharged | value* |
| Sex | | | | Female | 4 (29%) | 10 (71%) | 0.5 | Male | 10 (39%) | 16 (61%) | 0.5 | Race | | | | Caucasian | 4 (40%) | 6 (60%) | | African American | 7 (35%) | 13 (65%) | | Hispanic | 2 (22%) | 7 (78%) | | Other/unknown | 1 (100%) | 0 (0 %) | | Age (years) | 7.4 (4.3) | 9.4 (5.0) | 0.2 | Weight (kg) | 32.5 (22.1) | 47.3 (38.1) | 0.2 | Height (cm) | 130 (29.9) | 136.2 (27.2) | 0.2 | Length of stay (min) | 326.85 (77.4) | 221.96 (57.8) | 0.07 | Vital signs | | | | Heart rate | 121.4 (18.8) | 105.4 (20.9) | 0.02 | Respiratory rate | 31.9 (9.2) | 26.5 (8.1) | 0.06 | Pulse oximetry | 97.2 (1.8) | 97.8 (1.9) | 0.3 | Asthma score | 4.3 (0.91) | 3.1 (1.5) | 0.01 | Pertinent history | | | | Asthma/wheezing | 14 (35%) | 26 (65%) | 0.7 | Allergic rhinitis | 10 (33%) | 20 (67%) | 0.7 | Eczema | 5 (42%) | 7 (58%) | 0.6 | Exposure to smoke | 4 (36%) | 7 (64%) | 0.9 |
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Values represent number of patients (% of total) or mean (SD). * value for two-tailed -test or chi-square.
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