Vocal Cord Dysfunction

A Controlled Clinical Trial of Steroids forBronchiolitis Key point: One dose of oral dexamethasone was no different fromplacebo. Citation: A multicenter, randomized, controlled trial of dexamethasone for bronchiolitis. N Engl J Med. 2007;357:331-339. Bronchiolitis is the leading cause of hospitalization of infants in the U.S. Use of steroids for infants with bronchiolitis remains controversial because of the lack of high-quality, sufficiently powered studies. In a multisite, double-blind clinical trial, researchers randomized 600 infants (age range, …