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Should Corticosteroids Be Used in the Treatment of Acute, Severe Asthma?
Author(s) -
Fiel Stanley B.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
pharmacotherapy: the journal of human pharmacology and drug therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.227
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1875-9114
pISSN - 0277-0008
DOI - 10.1002/j.1875-9114.1985.tb03438.x
Subject(s) - asthma , inhaled corticosteroids , medicine , premise , intensive care medicine , adrenal cortex hormones , acute severe asthma , corticosteroid , respiratory disease , lung , philosophy , linguistics
Corticosteroids have been used for over 3 decades in the treatment of asthma. There are theoretic reasons and long‐standing clinical support for their use, but little in the way of good objective data on their efficacy. I have reviewed this information and concluded that notwithstanding rare side effects, corticosteroids should be used in acute asthma, and objective data exist to support this premise.