Katie is staff specialist in the emergency department at Lady Cilento Hospital in Brisbane.

Every other child that presents to the emergency department at this time of year (winter in the southern hemisphere) has a wheeze of some sort. Call it what you will episodic viral wheeze, multi-trigger wheeze, pre-asthma, we all seem to have a different idea of what causes it and what we can do about it.

Go ahead and listen to the talk…