Abstract

Acute asthma is very dangerous and frequently presents with sudden narrowing of the airways especially during perioperative period. Asthma poses many challenges to the perioperative anesthesia management. This article describes a refractory acute asthma during extubation period in a 35 year old man without any history of asthma. There may be a number of factors that trigger asthma, so we reviewed some of the present literature to analyze the relationship between them and asthma in older to better guide the clinical practices.

Keywords: Asthma; Allergic rhinitis; Airway hyper-responsiveness