Preservative-free salbutamol ‘better for continuous nebulisation’
Children hospitalised with severe asthma needed less salbutamol when preservative-free
For children needing continuous nebulisation after a severe asthma attack, preservative-free salbutamol may be safer than solutions containing benzalkonium chloride (BAC), a retrospective study suggests.
US researchers compared outcomes of inpatients at a University of Florida children’s hospital who received continuous nebulised salbutamol 1.5 years before or 1.5 years after the institution’s change in the formulation.
