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Acute Asthma in Children

Occasionally we see a child with severe or critical asthma; when this happens it is useful to know what your plan is - a plan you can make beforehand, rather than in the heat of the moment...

Explore the PEMcast: Acute Asthma in Children

Medications for Severe Acute Asthma

In severe acute asthma in children, nothing seems to work as quickly or as well as we'd like... so where's the evidence that these intravenous medications actually work?

In this newest PEMcast, we skip joyfully through some hand-picked papers informing the use of Magnesium, Ipratropium, Aminophylline, and discuss the upside and downside of intravenous Salbutamol (albuterol).

Asthma Medications: where's the evidence?

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