Nursing Pharmacology Clinical Case: Sympathomimetic Drugs And Asthma
A ten-year old boy was referred to the asthma clinic
for workup. History: consistent with asthma; on pulmonary
function testing, a marked reduction of FEV1 was noted.
((adapted from a case used in Medical Pharmacology,
UCSF, 1998), courtesy of Dr. Susan Masters, Dept. of Pharmacology,
University of California San Francisco, used with permission.)