SGEM#194: Highway to the Dexamethasone – For Pediatric Asthma Exacerbations

Trials extracted from the podcast by Dr. Ken Milne

• 2016Single-Dose Oral Dexamethasone Versus Multidose Prednisolone for Acute Asthma in ChildrenPulmonary & AirwaysIn 226 children with acute asthma in the emergency department, single-dose oral dexamethasone was noninferior to a 3-day prednisolone course for day-4 symptom score