If it's 'only' asthma, why are children still dying?

Affiliations

• ¹ Children's Respiratory Services, University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK will.carroll@nhs.net.
• ² Institute of Applied Clinical Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, UK.
• ³ Child health, University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, Stoke-on-Trent, UK.
• ⁴ Paediatric Respiratory Medicine and Cystic Fibrosis, Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK.
• ⁵ Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, King's College London, London, UK.
• ⁶ Primary Care Respiratory Society UK, Park Medical Practice, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, UK.
• ⁷ Clinical Lead for the UK National Review of Asthma Deaths (2011-4), London, UK.
• ⁸ Global Initiative on Asthma (GINA), Fontana, California, USA.