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. 1990 May;36:917–920.

Aminophylline Infusion in Acute Severe Asthma: Where Do We Go From Here?

Stephen R Lloyd, Ashok Sharma
PMCID: PMC2280481  PMID: 21233961

Abstract

The authors critically appraised the literature according to study design, patient characteristics, and the outcome measures used. Well-designed studies suggest that aminophylline is not an appropriate first-line medication for acute asthma. The literature does not clearly indicate whether aminophylline is an appropriate second-line medication. A telephone survey of full-time emergency physicians, conducted to determine current practice, suggests that full-time emergency physicians add aminophylline to their treatment protocol more often than not (60.9%) when patients have not improved after two salbutamol nebulizer treatments.

Keywords: asthma, aminophylline, emergency medicine, family medicine, intravenous infusion, pharmacologic therapy, respiratory diseases

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