Letter: Ibuterol hydrochloride and terbutaline in asthma.

Bronchodilator, Terbutaline, in Asthma

subnormal responses found in patients given interriittent COT ticosteroid therapy by Malone et al. (1970). This finding, together with the satisfactory clinical response in these patients with severe disease, suggests that a therapeutic trial of depot tetracosactrin in a dose of 0-5 mg twice weekly should be considered for the control of disease requiring steroid therapy over a prolonged period...

Short reports Plasma terbutaline levels in asthma

Terbutaline is known to be an effective drug in the treatment of asthma which acts by P32 receptor stimulation in the lung.' If given in large doses this agent may produce side effects-such as tremor, headache, and tachycardia. Children seem to be fairly tolerant of such side effects and therefore may continue to obtain benefit at doses higher than currently recommended. The present study was u...

Comparison of inhaled and intravenous terbutaline in acute severe asthma.

In patients with acute severe asthma, 5 mg of terbutaline by inhalation and 500 microgram intravenously in divided doses both produced equally effective but not maximal bronchodilatation. There was no difference in the production of side-effects. These results support the view that inhaled therapy can be as effective in patients with acute severe asthma as injected treatment. In view of the ris...

Terbutaline aerosol given through pear spacer in acute severe asthma.

Terbutaline in the treatment of acute asthma in childhood.

Forty-eight children with known asthma (ranging in age from 2 to 16 years) were studied during an acute attack. Each received either terbutaline or epinephrine subcutaneously in a random double-blind fashion. Measurement of heart rate, respiratory rate, and systemic arterial systolic and diastolic blood pressures and careful clinical assessment of obstruction of the airway were made before and ...