Volume 26, Issue 129, November 2022

Level of asthma control and frequency of emergency visits during COVID 19 pandemic: Cross sectional study

Faheem Mohammed Alanazi¹, Abdulmajeed Haddaj Alruwaili², Abdulrhman Fahad Almutairi², Sameh Ahmed³, Ahlam Saud H Alabbad⁴, Asalah Abdulaziz H Faqih⁵, Erum Ali Almarhoon⁶, Ghaida Ali H AL Zaher⁷, Khaled Mohammed H Almutairi⁸, Muhannad Ali S Alshahrani⁸, Omar Mebrek M Almutairi⁸, Khalid Mohammed Alghamdi⁹, Malikah Zaki Alshaikhmohamed¹⁰, Mohammed Yahya M Alalkami¹¹

¹Emergency Consultant Emergency Department, General Hospital King Saud Medical City Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
²Emergency resident Emergency department, General Hospital King Saud medical city Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
³Assistant Consultant of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Department, General Hospital King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
⁴College of medicine, Albaha University, Albaha, Saudi Arabia
⁵College of Medicine, Al Maarefa University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
⁶College of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, United Kingdom
⁷College of Medicine, Dar Al Uloom University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
⁸College of Medicine, Majmaah University, Majmaah, Saudi Arabia
⁹Vision College of Medicine, Vision College, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
¹⁰General Physician, Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia
¹¹College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

Asthma is a chronic respiratory illness associated with sudden attacks of shortness of breath that require emergency visits. Asthmatic patients were harmed by the pandemic because they were unable to receive regular follow-up. This cross sectional study was conducted in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to assess emergency visit differences before and during the pandemic. An online survey of asthma control tests and other demographic information about the people who took part was also used to measure how well asthma was controlled. The results highlighted that there's no difference between pre and during pandemic emergency visits. Additionally most patients were poorly controlled according to the asthma control test. Asthma control test results in Riyadh come in the mid-range if compared to studies at other locations in the kingdom. There was a link between smoking and increasing emergency visits and not doing well on control tests. Asthmatic patients should be told to stop smoking for their own health and to make it easier on health authorities.

Keywords: COVID 19, asthma, emergency

Medical Science, 2022, 26, ms446e2525

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v26i129/ms446e2525

Published: 05 November 2022