Ipratropium does indeed reduce admissions to hospital with severe asthma

Nebulized ipratropium bromide in acute pediatric asthma: does it reduce hospital admissions among children presenting to the emergency department?

Audit strategies to reduce hospital admissions for acute asthma.

An eightfold rise in hospital admissions for acute asthma from 1971-85 prompted two studies to audit the admissions policy at the Royal Alexandra Hospital. In the first study the on call senior house officer (SHO) was replaced by an experienced registrar and over a four month period 53 children out of 158 were sent home from the receiving room compared with six out of 39 seen by the SHOs. In th...

Children with asthma: will nebulised salbutamol reduce hospital admissions?

To find out how many children with acute asthma responded to one or two doses of nebulised salbutamol and whether this response could be predicted 100 children were studied prospectively from two district hospitals. Twenty three children needed only one nebulised dose and 19 responded to two. Significant factors differentiating these responders from the remainder were age (24 (63%) of those age...

Review: inhaled corticosteroids reduce hospital admissions in acute asthma.

D a t a s o u r c e s Studies were identified by searching the asthma and wheeze randomized controlled trial (RCT) register of the Cochrane Airways Review Group, which is maintained by searches of MEDLINE, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, CINAHL, CENTRAL, and 20 respiratory care journals. In addition, reference lists of studies and review articles were scanned; abstracts of respiratory and emergency med...

Does Risperidone Long Acting Injectable Depot (RLAI) Reduce number of Admissions to Hospital.

BACKGROUND Adherence to treatment is a major issue in relapse prevention in schizophrenia. Injectable depot has been claimed to improve non-adherence. A study in the North of England has shown that risperidone long acting injectable form has reduced number of admissions and number of days stayed in hospital. Our study aimed to replicate the previous study in the South of England. METHODS A re...