{"id":796,"date":"2016-06-03T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=796"},"modified":"2016-06-03T08:46:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T12:46:00","slug":"prednisone-and-dexamethasone-for-asthma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"Prednisone and Dexamethasone for Asthma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can we use Dexa instead of Prednisone when we are discharging patient home? old question and as I remember the answer was always Sure! but why are we asking still this question:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/9350159\">Symptomatic improvement following emergency department management of <b>asthma<\/b>: a pilot study of intramuscular <b>dexamethasone<\/b> versus oral <b>prednisone<\/b>.<\/a> J. Asthma 1997<\/p>\n<p>2 articles within last 2 months in Annals of EM:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annemergmed.com\/article\/S0196-0644%2815%2901154-3\/abstract\">1.A Randomized Trial of Single-Dose Oral Dexamethasone Versus Multidose Prednisolone for Acute Exacerbations of Asthma in Children Who Attend the Emergency Department<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/27117874\">A Randomized Controlled Noninferiority Trial of Single Dose of Oral Dexamethasone Versus 5 Days of Oral Prednisone in Acute Adult Asthma.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can we use Dexa instead of Prednisone when we are discharging patient home? old question and as I remember the answer was always Sure! but why are we asking still this question: Symptomatic improvement following emergency department management of asthma: a pilot study of intramuscular dexamethasone versus oral prednisone. J. Asthma 1997 2 articles within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,15,16,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pgy1","category-pgy2","category-pgy3","category-pgy4","category-pulmonary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}