Appropriate Use of Antitussives and Protussives: A Practical Review

Drugs

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 80-91

  Irwin, Richard S ^a   Curley, Frederick J ^a   Bennett, Frederick M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMILORIDE; ANTITUSSIVE AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CODEINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DECONGESTIVE AGENT; DEXTROMETHORPHAN; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ERDOSTEINE; FUROSEMIDE; HISTAMINE H1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; INDOMETACIN; IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; NIFEDIPINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SULINDAC; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ASTHMA; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CILIARY MOTILITY; COMMON COLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DRUG EFFICACY; EXHAUSTION; HUMAN; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUCOCILIARY CLEARANCE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANTITUSSIVE AGENTS; COUGH; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; EXPECTORANTS; HUMAN; MUCOCILIARY CLEARANCE; REFLEX;

EID: 0027202656     PISSN: 00126667     EISSN: 11791950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00003495-199346010-00006     Document Type: Article

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