Bronchiolitis, a characteristic entity of viral-induced respiratory disease in children younger
than 2 years, is among the most pressing diseases affecting global child health. Although …

Nearly 80 years ago, a landmark paper by Hubble and Osborn introduced acute
bronchiolitis as a separate entity of acute respiratory disease with obstructive dyspnoea that …

The Forum of International Respiratory Societies launched The Decade of the Lung
campaign at the 2015 International Congress of the European Respiratory Society in …

Pausing to reflect on World Pneumonia Day, we celebrate numerous achievements in the
fight against pneumonia in children. Most notably, annual pneumonia deaths among …

In the slipstream of the extraordinary, worldwide natural experiment reducing close human
contact to mitigate the spread of SARS-CoV-2, a drastically but temporarily diminished …

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) results in seasonal winter epidemics and accounts for 60–
80% of bronchio litis hospitalisations, the most common cause of admission to hospital for …

COVID-19 has placed respiratory medicine at the centre of health responses worldwide, but
lung health was a major global challenge long before the current pandemic. More than 1000 …

The question of how to treat a preschool aged child who presents with an acute wheezing
illness during an apparent viral infection has been a subject of recent controversy. 1 This …

Since the 1940s, adjunctive critical care treatments for bronchiolitis in children have been
described in detail. Several of these treatments—such as steam tents and specific dosing …

Collaborative working, regional spare capacity, and goodwill maintain paediatric intensive
care unit (PICU) function during sudden local or regional surges of demand, such as those …