{"title":"Adrenaline infusion in bronchial asthma: A before- and- after study","authors":"S. Daga, Shalaka Patil, B. Verma, Chetan Mokashe","doi":"10.5580/209c","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The frontline treatment for relief of acute attacks of bronchial asthma is administration of a sympathomimetic drug by inhalation. Difficulties in administration of nebulization treatment, made us search for an alternative, the use of adrenaline by infusion. When the “pre-adrenaline period” was compared with the “post-adrenaline period”, the patient profile was comparable, indices of effectiveness improved and cost of care declined significantly in the “post-adrenaline period”. Our study suggests that adrenaline infusion is a good option where nebulization is not feasible as an emergency treatment of bronchial asthma in children.","PeriodicalId":75037,"journal":{"name":"The Internet journal of pediatrics and neonatology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2009-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Internet journal of pediatrics and neonatology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5580/209c","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The frontline treatment for relief of acute attacks of bronchial asthma is administration of a sympathomimetic drug by inhalation. Difficulties in administration of nebulization treatment, made us search for an alternative, the use of adrenaline by infusion. When the “pre-adrenaline period” was compared with the “post-adrenaline period”, the patient profile was comparable, indices of effectiveness improved and cost of care declined significantly in the “post-adrenaline period”. Our study suggests that adrenaline infusion is a good option where nebulization is not feasible as an emergency treatment of bronchial asthma in children.