Croup and Bronchiolitis

The effectiveness of glucocorticoids in treating croup: meta-analysis. (BMJ 1999. Full)

A comparison of Nebulized Budenoside, Intramuscular Dexamethasone and Placebo for Moderately Severe Croup. (NEJM 1998. Abstract + Editorial)

Best evidence topic report: nebulized Epinephrine or Corticosteroids in Croup. (Emer Med J 2001,no abstract)

Nebulized Budesonide and Oral Dexamethasone for Treatment of Croup  (JAMA, 1998, abstract)

Effectiveness of Oral or Nebulized Dexamethasone for Children With Mild Croup 

(Arch Ped Adoles Med, 2001, abstract)

  Evidence-based PEM

Glucocorticoids for croup (Cochrane Review, 2004, abstract)

Efficacy of oral dexamethasone in outpatients with acute bronchiolitis (J Pediatr, 2002, abstract)

Systemic Corticosteroids in infant Bronchiolitis: A  meta-analysis. (Pediatrics 2000. Full)

Bronchodilators for bronchiolitis (Cochrane Review, 1998, abstract)

Dexamethasone in salbutamol-treated inpatients with acute bronchiolitis: A randomized, controlled trial (J Pediatr, 1997, abstract)

Respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis: A double-blind dexamethasone efficacy study

(J Pediatr, 1997, abstract)

Croup

Bronchiolitis

A randomized, controlled trial of the effectiveness of nebulized therapy with epinephrine compared with albuterol and saline in infants hospitalized for acute viral bronchiolitis

(J Pediatr, 2002, abstract)

Best Evidence Topic Report. Type of oral cortiosteroid in mild to moderate croup (EMJ, 2003, abstract)

Management of Bronchiolitis in Infants and Children

(Evidence Report/Technology Assessment, # 69, 2003, abstract)

Review. Croup: assessment and evidence-based management (Med J Aust, 2003, full)

A Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials Evaluating the Efficacy of Epinephrine for the Treatment of Acute Viral Bronchiolitis (Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med, 2003, abstract)

Oral prednisolone in the acute management of children age 6 to 35 months with viral respiratory infection-induced lower airway disease: A randomized, placebo-controlled trial

(J Pediatr, 2003, abstract)

Editorial. Corticosteroids for first-time young wheezers: Current status of the controversy

(J Pediatr, 2003, abstract)

Evidence for clinicians. In infants with bronchiolitis, is epinephrine more effective than placebo in improving clinical outcomes, as measured by clinical score, oxygen saturation and respiratory rate?

(Pediatr Child Health, 2003, abstract)

Pharmacologic Treatment of Bronchiolitis in Infants and Children. A Systematic Review

(Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med, 2004, abstract)

Glucocorticoids for acute viral bronchiolitis in infants and young children

(Cochrane Review, 2004, abstract)

A Multicenter, Randomized, Controlled Trial of Dexamethasone for Bronchiolitis

(NEJM, 2007, abstract)

Croup (NEJM, 2008, extract)

Croup (Lancet, 2008, abstract)