Q/What's best for croup?

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 680-681

  Pitluk, Jessica Danielle ^a   Uman, Howard ^a   Safranek, Sarah ^b  

^a Swedish Family Medicine Residency First Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BUDESONIDE; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HELIOX; PLACEBO; PREDNISOLONE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; HELIUM; OXYGEN;

CANADA; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CROUP; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG INDICATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NEBULIZER; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; REVIEW;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CROUP; EPINEPHRINE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HELIUM; HUMANS; OXYGEN; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RESPIRATORY THERAPY;

EID: 84555205279     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: 15337294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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