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  • Title: Use of ether in life-threatening acute severe asthma.
    Author: Robertson CE, Steedman D, Sinclair CJ, Brown D, Malcolm-Smith N.
    Journal: Lancet; 1985 Jan 26; 1(8422):187-8. PubMed ID: 2857266.
    Abstract:
    Two patients with acute severe asthma who had failed to improve with conventional treatment, mechanical ventilation, and halothane showed prompt bronchodilator response following administration of diethyl ether by inhalation. Airway pressures fell, and there was a dramatic improvement in blood gas analysis and clinical condition.
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