Drug Treatment of Chronic Bronchitis

Treatment of acute bacterial exacerbations of chronic bronchitis.

BACKGROUND Controversies persist regarding the optimal management of patients with acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis (AECB). OBJECTIVE To evaluate the available evidence on relevant issues, namely the need for administering antimicrobials in patients with AECB, the identification of the subgroup of patients with AECB needing antibiotics, the antimicrobial regimen of choice and its opt...

Guidelines for the treatment of acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis.

1997;112;310S-313S Chest Ronald F. Grossman Exacerbations of Chronic Bronchitis Guidelines for the Treatment of Acute citation http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/content/112/6_Supplement/310S. and services can be found online on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information ISSN:0012-3692 ) http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/site/misc/reprints.xhtml ( w...

The aetiology, prevention and treatment of chronic bronchitis.

No one can pretend that the treatment of chronic bronchitis at the present time is anything but profoundly unsatisfactory. No attempts are made at prevention, whilst treatment of the established case depends to a large extent upon the depth of the patient's purse, and consists of a bottle of cough mixture for the poor patient, and advice to winter in South Africa for his wealthier fellow-suffer...

Treatment of exacerbations of chronic bronchitis with ampicillin.

The Aetiology, Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Bronchitis * By

No one can pretend that the treatment of chronic bronchitis at the present time is anything but profoundly unsatisfactory. No attempts are made at prevention, whilst treatment of the established case depends to a large extent upon the depth of the patient's purse, and consists of a bottle of cough mixture for the poor patient, and advice to winter in South Africa for his wealthier fellow-suffer...