Current Management of Acute Bronchiolitis: An Evidence-Based Approach
The authors review the current American Academy of Pediatric guidelines on diagnosing and managing this most common cause of hospitalization in the first 12 months of life.
Emergency Medicine. 2015 December;47(12):540-546 | DOI: 10.12788/emed.2015.0028
December 1, 2015|Emergency Medicine
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Not only the most common viral lower respiratory tract infection in children younger than age 2 years, bronchiolitis is a condition in which the diagnosis is based almost exclusively on history and physical examination.
Dr Schneider is a pediatric emergency medicine fellow, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters, Norfolk. Dr Clingenpeel is a fellowship director of pediatric emergency medicine, and an associate professor of pediatrics, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk.
