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In this issue of the Journal, Johnson et al. report that in children with moderately severe croup, a single dose of intramuscular dexamethasone (0.6 mg per kilogram of body weight) or nebulized budesonide (4 mg) resulted in significantly fewer hospitalizations than did the administration of placebo and that dexamethasone was associated with greater clinical improvement than budesonide five hours after treatment.¹ Klassen et al.² recently demonstrated that the clinical effect of a single dose of oral dexamethasone (0.6 mg per kilogram) was similar to that of nebulized budesonide (2 mg) alone or in combination with dexamethasone. These results add to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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