 For over ten years, the French group ASUR ASthme aux URgences has studied the asthmatic disease. The first epidemiological study enrolling 3.772 patients, in 37 emergency services, showed that the treatment protocols during the acute asthma attacks were not homogeneous and that oral corticosteroids were prescribed in only 50 of the cases. The second major French study in the emergency department by the same group enrolled 3.049 patients. The results showed that 38 of patients have a new acute asthma relapse in the month following their consultation in the emergency department. In the same study, a multivariate analysis of predictors of relapse showed that there are controllable factors absence of written recommendations at discharge, only 50 of prescriptions for oral corticosteroids at discharge from the emergency department, limited follow-up by a general practitioner GP or pneumologist .... 