Let’s look specifically at dexamethasone, a common corticosteroid in emergency medicine, and use current research to describe what the drug does and look at select situations in prehospital care ...
Corticosteroid therapy must be tapered because of its interactions with the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis. The hypothalamus secretes corticotropin releasing factor, which acts ...
Classification, Proposed Site of Action, Usual Dose, and Adverse Effects of Selected Antiemetic Drugs a b Pediatric doses should not exceed adult doses. c Most investigators administered ...