Viral croup: Current diagnosis and treatment

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 827-834

  Kaditis, Athanasios G ^a   Wald, Ellen R ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Budesonide; Children; Dexamethasone; Helium; Laryngotracheitis; Racemic epinephrine

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BUDESONIDE; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE;

ADENOVIRUS; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; CROUP; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EPIGLOTTITIS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INTERMITTENT POSITIVE PRESSURE VENTILATION; LARYNGOTRACHEOBRONCHITIS; NEBULIZATION; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOCROUP; PULSE OXIMETRY; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; REVIEW; TRACHEITIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

BRONCHODILATOR AGENTS; CROUP; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EPIGLOTTITIS; EPINEPHRINE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; NEBULIZERS AND VAPORIZERS; OXIMETRY; TRACHEITIS;

EID: 0031692671     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006454-199809000-00018     Document Type: Review

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