Post asthma attack benefits effective with corticosteroids
A Cochrane Systematic Review has suggested that the risk of an asthma attack relapsing is reduced considerably when a short course of corticosteroids is administered to asthmatic patients after being discharged from the hospital post-attack.
It is was disclosed by the study that administration of steroids could be effective for reducing the use of inhalers besides revealing that such benefits can hold good for a period of three weeks.
From News-Medical.Net:
This updated finding was drawn after reviewing data in six trials that together involved 374 people.
Between 12% and 16% of people who are discharged from hospital after having an asthma attack have a relapse within two weeks. “There is considerable debate about the best way of treating people who have asthma attacks, including the dose, method of delivery and timing of delivery of corticosteroids. Our research found clear evidence that people who arrived at a hospital with acute asthma and were well enough to be discharged benefited from the addition of corticosteroid therapy,” says lead author Professor Brian Rowe, who works at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada.
Carol Spooner, the review colleague, said that the use of systematic corticosteroids for treating outpatients after getting discharged from the hospital after asthma attack is strongly endorsed by the systematic review.
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