Critical Bytes - Status Asthmaticus

Stay current with the 2025 asthma guideline updates and enhance your critical care response with evidence-based strategies for ventilating patients in extremis.

Status asthmaticus is a high-risk medical emergency marked by life-threatening airway obstruction unresponsive to standard therapy. Timely recognition, escalation of care, and appropriate ventilatory strategies are essential to prevent hypoxaemia, respiratory failure, and death.

This interactive webinar is designed for nurses and doctors working in emergency, ICU, respiratory, and acute care settings. Using a case-based format, the session will cover:

• Early recognition of clinical deterioration and predictors of impending respiratory failure

• Optimisation of first-line therapy, including inhaled and systemic treatments

• When and how to escalate to non-invasive ventilation or intubation

• Strategies for managing refractory cases, including ventilator settings for patients with prolonged expiratory times and auto-PEEP

• Updates from the 2025 asthma guidelines, highlighting changes in acute care pathways
  
  

Delivered live on World Asthma Day 2025 this webinar is now available on demand and will build your capability and confidence in managing patients with severe asthma exacerbations. This session is essential for any healthcare professional responsible for acute asthma care, from stabilisation through to advanced ventilation support.

Participant Feedback

Clear and concise with updated guidelines and references

Easy to follow with good case studies

Very informative

Such high level of knowledge and great explanations of the physiology which makes it easier to understand the WHY of Treatment

This is a Medcast Continuing Medical Education (CME) course.