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F Chavarría

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PubMed1990

Treatment of the asthmatic child.

At the end of 1983 the outpatient clinic at the National Children's Hospital in San José, Costa Rica, adopted a new program for treating children with asthmatic crises. Use of adrenaline was discontinued, and administration of salbutamol in aerosol and short courses of corticosteroids was introduced; also, a special outpatient room was set aside for treating pediatric asthma cases. Between 1984 and 1986 this program's marked superiority was demonstrated by many developments--including reduction of both initial hospitalizations and readmissions for pediatric asthma by nearly 70%.

Adrenal Cortex Hormones↗
PubMed1989

[Treatment of asthma in the emergency clinic of a pediatric hospital].

At the end of 1983 a change was made in the treatment of children presenting with acute asthmatic attacks in the emergency clinic at a pediatric hospital in Costa Rica. The use of epinephrine was abandoned in favor of salbutamol in spray form and short-term treatment with glucocorticoids. This new regime, compared with the previous one, reduced hospitalizations and readmissions for asthma by nearly 70%, as well as the average hospital stay (3.5 days vs. 5 days).

Adolescent↗