Reactive airways dysfunction syndrome

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Overview

Reactive Airway Disease (RADS) is a term proposed by S.M. Brooks and colleagues in 1985 ^[1] to describe an asthma-like syndrome developing after a single exposure to high levels of an irritating vapor, fume, or smoke.^[2] In time, however, it has evolved to be mistakenly used as a synonym for asthma^[3]. Current usage of the term in the medical community is to describe an asthma-like syndrome in infants that may later be confirmed to be asthma when they become old enough to participate in diagnostic tests.

References

↑ S.M. Brooks, M.A. Weiss, I.L. Bernstein. “Reactive airways dysfunction syndrome (RADS): persistent asthma syndrome after high level irritant exposures”. Chest, Volume 88, 1985, 376-384. Retrieved 2007-8-28. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
↑ John V. Fahy and Paul M. O’Byrne. ““Reactive Airways Disease”: A Lazy Term of Uncertain Meaning That Should Be Abandoned”. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., Volume 163, Number 4, March 2001, 822-823. Retrieved 2007-4-22. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
↑ Mayo Clinic Staff (Sep 4, 2006). “Reactive airway disease: Is it asthma?”. Mayo Clinic. Retrieved 2007-04-22.

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[1] S.M. Brooks, M.A. Weiss, I.L. Bernstein. “Reactive airways dysfunction syndrome (RADS): persistent asthma syndrome after high level irritant exposures”. Chest, Volume 88, 1985, 376-384. Retrieved 2007-8-28. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

[2] John V. Fahy and Paul M. O’Byrne. ““Reactive Airways Disease”: A Lazy Term of Uncertain Meaning That Should Be Abandoned”. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., Volume 163, Number 4, March 2001, 822-823. Retrieved 2007-4-22. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

[3] Mayo Clinic Staff (Sep 4, 2006). “Reactive airway disease: Is it asthma?”. Mayo Clinic. Retrieved 2007-04-22.

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