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Infants with bronchiolitis may benefit more from albuterol

Bronchiolitis, a wheezing much like asthma in adults, is responsible for many hospital admissions of infants. There are two drugs in general use to treat this condition, epinephrine and albuterol, and there is some controversy and passion involved in the choice of medication. In a paper to be presented at the 2007 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, a double-blind randomized clinical trial involving over 700 infants showed a clear advantage for albuterol.

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