Author Question: You enter the room of a 2-year-old patient who presents with a barking cough typically associated ... (Read 55 times)

james0929 · **on:** Jul 16, 2018

You enter the room of a 2-year-old patient who presents with a barking cough typically associated with croup.

Once the diagnosis is confirmed, which of the following medications could you recommend to help provide relief from subglottic swelling?
a. Albuterol
b. Levalbuterol
c. Racemic epinephrine
d. Salmeterol

Question 2

Your patient presents with postextubation stridor. You recommend racemic epinephrine for its

a. -adrenergic vasoconstricting effect.
b. short-acting 2-adrenergic effect.
c. long-acting 2-adrenergic effect.
d. 1-adrenergic effect.