Emergency management of asthma in children: Sulochina L, Newcomb RW, J Pediatr 97:346–350, 1980
✍ Scribed by Mark A. Saffer
- Book ID
- 104311956
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 149 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1097-6760
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✦ Synopsis
rive measures. To evaluate endoscopy adequately, patients must be initially randomized into endoscopy and no endoscopy groups, which is a difficult task in that many physicians believe endoscopy to be a mainstay of management. Endoscopy is more accurate than radiography and its greatest benefit may be in planning subsequent management rather than in determining immediate management and outcome. (Editor's note: As a result of endoscopy, important therapeutic changes were made in only 12% of the patients. Despite this there were no significant differences between any aspects o'f treatment or outcome of the two groups. This lack of differences suggests that endoscopy should not be done in the unstable patient because it is unnecessary.