Pediatric intensive care admissions for severe acute asthma
during the COVID-19 pandemic
Somayeh Bazdar1, 2, 3*, Sarah van den
Berg4, 5*, Niels W. Rutjes4, Lizan
D. Bloemsma1, 2, 3, George S.
Downward6, 7, Letty A. De Weger8,
Suzanne W.J. Terheggen-Lagro3, Yolanda de Wit-van
Wijck1, 2, 3, Anke H. Maitland van der
Zee1, 2, 3,4, Berber Kapitein5
- Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
- Amsterdam Institute for Infection and Immunity, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
- Amsterdam Public Health, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Pediatric Pulmonology, Emma Children’s Hospital,
Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Emma Children’s Hospital, Amsterdam
UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Environmental Epidemiology, Institute for Risk
Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Utrecht University, Utrecht, The
Netherlands
- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical
Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Leiden University Medical Center, Department of Pulmonology and
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Postbus 9600, 2300 RC
Leiden, The Netherlands
* Co-first author: Both Somayeh Bazdar and Sarah van den Berg
are first authors and contributed equally.
Running title : Severe acute asthma during COVID-19