Adding ipratropium - ✅ reduced hospitalizations ✅ improved asthma scores ✅ no adverse events

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Pediatric asthma, albuterol, steroids, done, right? A new systematic review that includes 24 randomized controlled trials found that a single drug can reduce hospitalization rate by 24%. It's the drug that's been in your pixes or acudose the whole time. Ipratropium.

[00:00:19]Simply adding nebulized ipratropium to albuterol reduced hospitalization rates by 24%. If a child has a mild exacerbation, you can skip it. If they're moderate to severe, definitely add it.

[00:00:31]24 RCTs, 3200 kids, ipratropium, add it.

[00:00:37]If you want to learn more about this study and thousands more, go to journalfeed.org.