en استانداردهای بهداشتی جانبازان يا معلولان Health Service Standards of Veterans or Handicapped توصیفی و نظرسنجی Descriptive & Survey <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span cambria="" style="font-family:"><span style="color:#f79646">Aims:</span></span></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span cambria="" style="font-family:"><span style="color:#0e101a"> Bronchial asthma is a chronic bronchospastic disease of the lung airway and one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in childhood and adult age groups. This study aimed to investigate the role of antibiotics in managing acute asthmatic attacks in patients admitted to Al-Mawani General Hospital in Basrah, Iraq.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span cambria="" style="font-family:"><span style="color:#f79646">Instrument & Methods:</span></span></span></b> <span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span cambria="" style="font-family:">This cross-sectional study was conducted on acute asthmatic patients admitted from January 2021 to January 2022 in Al-Mawani General Hospital in Basrah, Southern Iraq. Out of the patients, 70 subjects were selected by random sampling according to the Cochrane formula. The patient&rsquo;s records were retrieved from AL-Mawani General Hospital.</span></span> <span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span cambria="" style="font-family:">Data were analyzed using the Chi-square test through SPSS 18 software.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span cambria="" style="font-family:"><span style="color:#f79646">Findings:</span></span></span></b> <span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span cambria="" style="font-family:"><span style="color:black">There was just a significant difference in the frequency of hypertension in comparing the goodness of fit between the subjects (p=0.045). There was an inverse relationship between the duration of hospitalization and single and combined medicine therapy by antibiotic. There was no significant association between the duration of asthma and single/combined medicine.</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span cambria="" style="font-family:"><span style="color:#0e101a"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span cambria="" style="font-family:"><span style="color:#f79646">Conclusion:</span></span></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span cambria="" style="font-family:"><span style="color:#0e101a">&nbsp;Amoxicillin and ceftriaxone as an additional treatment to standard therapy of acute severe asthma effectively reduces hospitalization of asthmatic patients.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br> &nbsp; Acute Severe Asthma,Hospitalization,Antibiotic, 323 327 http://ijwph.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-2069-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 A.A. Sherhan 15300319475328460027477 15300319475328460027477 Yes Department of Medicine, Basrah College of Medicine, Basrah University, Basrah, Iraq H.A. Saihood 15300319475328460027478 15300319475328460027478 No Basrah Health Directorate, Basrah, Iraq