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Corticosteroids for a sore throat [PDF]

CJEM, 2018
Article chosenHayward GN, Hay AD, Moore MV, et al. Effect of oral dexamethasone without immediate antibiotics vs. placebo on acute sore throats in adults: a randomized clinical trial. JAMA 2017;317(15):1535-43.
John M. Tallon, Skye Crawford
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Group A Streptococci point of care testing improves diagnostic accuracy for patients presenting with sore throat [PDF]

, 2016
Background: Group A streptococci infections are the cause for acute rheumatic fever and chronic heart disease. Therefore it would be ideal to treat every patient presenting with a streptococcal infection with antibiotics.
Fitzgerald, Mark, Gunnarsson, Ronny, Mitra, B., Orda, Sabine, Orda, Ulrich   +4 more
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Single bolus parecoxib attenuates sore throat after laryngeal microsurgery: A randomized double-blind control study

Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, 2014
Laryngeal microsurgery is performed to assess disorders of the larynx. Parecoxib is the only parenterally administered selective cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 inhibitor widely used in acute pain control.
Hui-Fang Huang, Pi-Ying Chang, Yu-Chun Chen, Kuang-Yi Tseng, Hung-Te Hsu, Kuang-I Cheng, I-Cheng Lu   +6 more
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Telemedicine Physical Examination Utilizing a Consumer Device Demonstrates Poor Concordance with In-Person Physical Examination in Emergency Department Patients with Sore Throat: A Prospective Blinded Study.

Telemedicine journal and e-health, 2018
BACKGROUND Telemedicine allows patients to connect with healthcare providers remotely. It has recently expanded to evaluate low-acuity illnesses such as pharyngitis by using patients' personal communication devices.
M. Akhtar, Paul Van Heukelom, Azeemuddin Ahmed, Rachel Tranter, Erinn White, Nathaniel Shekem, David Walz, Catherine Fairfield, J. Vakkalanka, Nicholas M. Mohr   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The role of topical anti-inflammatory therapy in the management of acute tonsillopharyngitis in children

Медицинский совет, 2018
Acute tonsillopharyngitis (ATP) is the most common community-acquired infection, especially in children. Sore throat is the main manifestation of ATP. This is the most common reason for seeking outpatient medical care or self-medication.
I. M. Kirichenko
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Kikyo-to vs. Placebo on Sore Throat Associated with Acute Upper Respiratory Tract Infection: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Internal medicine, 2019
Objective Kikyo-to (KKT) is a fixed combination of glycyrrhiza root and platycodon root extracts. It is an herbal medicine traditionally used in Japan for relieving sore throat associated with acute upper respiratory tract infection (URTI). No controlled
Naoto Ishimaru, Saori Kinami, T. Shimokawa, Y. Kanzawa   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Group A streptococcal sore throat in a periurban population of northern India: a one-year prospective study

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2001
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the incidence and risk factors of group A streptococcus (GAS) sore throat among school-aged children living in a periurban slum area of Chandigarh, North India.
Nandi Sobhan, Kumar Rajesh, Ray Pallab, Vohra Harpreet, Ganguly Nirmal K.   +4 more
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Efficacy of 8 mg lidocaine and 2 mg cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) fixed-combination lozenges on sore throat pain intensity compared with 1 mg lidocaine and 2 mg CPC fixed-combination lozenges in subjects with sore throat due to upper respiratory tract infection: a randomized double-blind parallel-group single-dose study

Trials, 2018
Background Lozenges containing lidocaine and cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) are commonly used for the treatment of sore throat. The lidocaine acts locally to provide pain relief and the CPC has an antiseptic effect. Mebucaine CL, a well-established fixed-
Frank Donath, Pascal Mallefet, Stephen Garreffa, Rowland Furcha   +3 more
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Comparison of Nebulized Ketamine with Nebulized Magnesium Sulfate on the Incidence of Postoperative Sore Throat

Anesthesia Essays and Researches, 2018
Background: Postoperative sore throat (POST) is a known complication following general anesthesia requiring endotracheal intubation. Its incidence ranges from 21% to 65% and remains the eighth most undesirable postoperative event.
S. Segaran, Arish T. Bacthavasalame, R. Venkatesh, M. Zachariah, S. George, R. Kandasamy   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Throat Cosmology [PDF]

arXiv, 2010
In this thesis, we study throats in the early, hot universe. Throats are a common feature of the landscape of type IIB string theory. If a throat is heated during cosmological evolution, energy is subsequently transferred to other throats and to the standard model.
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