PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Honicky, Richard E.
TI  - Status Asthmaticus
DP  - 1980 Jun 01
TA  - Pediatrics
PG  - 1199--1199
VI  - 65
IP  - 6
4099  - http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/65/6/1199.1.short
4100  - http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/65/6/1199.1.full
SO  - Pediatrics1980 Jun 01; 65
AB  - The article by Harfi, Hanissian, and Crawford on the treatment of status asthmaticus in children with high doses and conventional doses of methylprednisolone, which appeared in the June 1978 issue of Pediatrics, was most disturbing both from the methodologic approach and the subsequent discussion. Failure to measure theophyllin levels during this study of at least 65 hours duration appears to be quite illogical since most, if not all, the aminophyllin has been metabolized and excreted in six to eight hours.