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Metered-dose inhalers vs. nebulization for the delivery of albuterol for acute exacerbations of wheezing or asthma in children: a systematic review with meta-analysis.

Pediatric Pulmonology, 2020
OBJECTIVES The benefits of metered-dose inhalers with a spacer (MDI+S) have increasingly been recognized as an alternative method of albuterol administration for treating pediatric asthma exacerbations.
Laura Payares-Salamanca, Sandra Contreras-Arrieta, V. Flórez-García, Alexander Barrios-Sanjuanelo, I. Stand-Niño, C. Rodríguez‐Martínez   +5 more
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Levalbuterol versus albuterol

Current Allergy and Asthma Reports, 2009
Albuterol has been used for more than 40 years to treat acute asthma exacerbations as a racemic mixture of isomers: the active form, (R)-albuterol, or levalbuterol, and (S)-albuterol, classically considered inert. The single-isomer formulation, levalbuterol, has been synthesized recently and used therapeutically when the racemate is deemed less ...
Bill T. Ameredes, William J. Calhoun
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Standardized Protocol Is Associated With a Decrease in Continuous Albuterol Use and Length of Stay in Critical Status Asthmaticus*

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 2020
Objectives: The primary aim of this study was to reduce duration of continuous albuterol and hospital length of stay in critically ill children with severe status asthmaticus.
Elliot Melendez, D. Dwyer, D. Donelly, D. Currier, Daniel Nachreiner, D. M. Miller, Julie Hurlbut, M. Pepin, M. Agus, J. Wong   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source