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Acute Bronchial Asthma

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Acute asthma is the third commonest cause of pediatric emergency visits at PGIMER. Typically, it presents with acute onset respiratory distress and wheeze in a patient with past or family history of similar episodes. The severity of the acute episode of asthma is judged clinically and categorized asmild, moderate and severe. The initial therapy consists of oxygen, inhaled beta-2 agonists (salbutamol or terbutaline), inhaled budesonide (three doses over 1 h, at 20 min interval) in all and ipratropium bromide and systemic steroids
(hydrocortisone or methylprednisolone) in acute severe asthma.

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English

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Asthma
Inhaled Budesonide

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Indian J Pediatr (November 2011) 78(11):1388–1395

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