The role of corticosteroids in the treatment of croup

Treatments in Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 139-145

  Rittichier, Kristine Kay ^a  

^a PRIMARY CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BUDESONIDE; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PLACEBO; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL SUPERINFECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROUP; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG COST; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG USE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LARYNGOTRACHEOBRONCHITIS; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NEBULIZATION; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; STANDARD; TRACHEITIS; VOMITING;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BUDESONIDE; CHILD; CROUP; DEXAMETHASONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3442894457     PISSN: 11763450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00151829-200403030-00002     Document Type: Article

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