Table 2

Assessment of acute wheeze

	Number	Per cent
Do you assess and manage asthma and acute viral induced wheeze differently?
No	113	61.7
Yes	70	38.3
Which of the following do you use to classify episode as severe?*
Can't complete sentences/too breathless to talk or feed	180	98.4
Low oxygen saturations	177	96.7
High respiratory rate	152	83.1
High pulse rate	131	71.6
Do you class the episode as severe if?
More than one, not necessarily all are present	106	57.9
Any are present in isolation	72	39.3
Only if all are present	5	2.7
Does your department have a peak expiratory flow rate meter?
Yes	156	85.2
No	16	8.7
Don't know	11	6.0
If you have one, do you use it to determine severity?
Sometimes	90	57.7
No	44	28.2
Yes	22	14.1