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Respiratory Pharmacology

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The pathological triad of pulmonary disease consists of: bronchospasm, airway inflammation, and retained secretion. Respiratory pharmacology deals with agents used to treat this “pathological triad.” Medications used to treat these conditions can be divided into different categories based on their mechanism of action. They include bronchodilators, anticholinergics, corticosteroids, mucolytics, and decongestants just to name a few.

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  1. Department of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Ahmad Maher Adi

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  1. Departments of General Anesthesia and Outcomes Research, Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western University, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Ehab Farag

  2. Center for Anesthesiology Education, Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Maged Argalious

  3. Department of General Anesthesia, Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

    John E. Tetzlaff

  4. Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Deepak Sharma

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Adi, A.M. (2018). Respiratory Pharmacology. In: Farag, E., Argalious, M., Tetzlaff, J.E., Sharma, D. (eds) Basic Sciences in Anesthesia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62067-1_12

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