Welcome to Episode Fourteen of our podcast series. This features material from our December 2023 print edition of the Clinical Communiqué. This podcast presents key learnings from the coroner’s inquest into the 2016 thunderstorm asthma event in Melbourne in which ten patients tragically lost their lives. We reflect on the terrifying rapidity with which their conditions changed from mildly short of breath to being in extremis, highlighting that it can be a matter of minutes between life and death in thunderstorm asthma.

Episode Contents

• 01:13 Editorial by Associate Professor Nicola Cunningham
• 05:37 Case #1: Something in the air by Dr Kristin Boyle
• 20:06 More on the Matter: In the blink of an eye by Associate Professor Nicola Cunningham
• 34:30 Expert Commentary by Associate Professor Matthew Conron and Associate Professor Eve Denton: Thunderstorm asthma: what causes the "perfect storm"?