| SAA | Severe Acute Asthma |
| PICU | Paediatric Intensive Care Unit |
| TD-GC-MS | Thermal Desorption Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry |
| VOC | Volatile Organic Compound |
| COPD | Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease |
| MACU-PICU | Multisystem phenotyping in severe acute asthma at the PICU |
| PANDA | Paediatric Asthma Non-Invasive Diagnostic Approaches |
| IV | Intravenously |
| GINA | Global Initiative for Asthma |
| ACT | Asthma Control Test |
| ERS | European Respiratory Society |
| AMDIS | Automatic Mass Spectral Deconvolution and Identification System |
| MS-NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology Mass Spectral Library |
| RT | Retention Time |
| PC | Principal Components |