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Dexamethasone as adjuvant therapy for severe acute pharyngitis

✍ Scribed by John F O'Brien; John L Meade; Jay L Falk

Book ID: 104310641
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1993
Tongue: English
Weight: 304 KB
Volume: 22
Category: Article
ISSN: 1097-6760
DOI: 10.1016/s0196-0644(05)80205-7

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✦ Synopsis

Setting: Large, urban community hospital emergency department with an emergency medicine residency program.

Type of participants: Patients aged 12 to 65 years 01d with exudative pharyngitis and severe dysphagia/odynophagia. Patients with cancer, AIDS, diabetes mellitus, recent steroid use, pregnancy, or suspicion of peritonsillar abscess were excluded.

Interventions: All patients received oral penicillin (500 mg Pen VK) or erythromycin (333 mg base) three times daily for ten days in addition to either 10 mg single-dose dexamethasone or saline placebo IM injection.

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