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Efficacy of Bronchodilators Administered by Nebulizers Versus Spacer Devices in Infants with Acute Wheezing by Ricardo M. Closa; Jordi Maixé Ceballos; Adolfo Gómez-Papí; Ana Sanchez Galiana; Cristina Gutiérrez; Carles Martí-Henneber is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Efficacy of Bronchodilators Administered by Nebulizers Versus Spacer Devices in Infants with Acute Wheezing about?
The aim of this study was to compare the response of infants with acute wheezing to treatments with inhaled terbutaline when administered by nebulizer or by metered-dose inhaler and spacer device (MDI-spacer). Thirty-four infants between the ages of 1 and 24 months who were seen in our emergency department for acute wheezing were studied in a double-blind, randomized trial. The participants received two treatments of terbutaline at 20-min intervals, either by a nebulizer (2 mg/dose in 2.8 mL of 0.9% saline solution) or by an MDI-spacer device (0.5 mg/dose). The outcome measure was a clinical score, based on respiratory rate, degree of wheezing, retractions, degree of cyanosis, color, and pulse oximetry data measured before treatment, 20 min after the first treatment, and again 20 min after the second treatment. There was no difference in the rate of improvement in the clinical score between infants who received terbutaline by nebulizer and those who received it by MDI-spacer. We conclude that MDI-spacers and nebulizers are equally effective means of delivering beta-2 agonists to infants and small children with acute wheezing.
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- Author
- Ricardo M. Closa; Jordi Maixé Ceballos; Adolfo Gómez-Papí; Ana Sanchez Galiana; Cristina Gutiérrez; Carles Martí-Henneber
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 8755-6863)
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)