Xopenex Essay

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I am wrighting a essay on the drug Xopenex. Part of the essay is how a. Paramedic would use this druge. Can any one help me with this answer or tell me where i can find the?
 
MoonHuntress said:
I am wrighting a essay on the drug Xopenex. Part of the essay is how a. Paramedic would use this druge. Can any one help me with this answer or tell me where i can find the?
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I do not know why I put effort into replying to these kinds of posts...just a glutton for punishment I guess.

OP, here is how you should have framed your post to get an intelligent and helpful response:

"I am writing an essay on the drug Xopenex and part of my response will include information on how a Paramedic will use the drug. Can anyone help me with this answer or tell me where I can find the answer?"

Your grammar and spelling both suck. You self-initiative sucks.

This is why you got a snarky reply. I could even do one better and simply say "Per the manufacturer's recommendations with Medical Director approval".

If you want help, then ask specifically. You threw up a VERY broad topic, gave no answers or thoughts of your own and then asked us to pick up where you have not even started...

Try again and there will be a lot of us willing to assist.
 
Serious question, are you guys really using xopenex pre-hospital? Using it often?

Even in the hospital setting we get push back due to its cost and I'm not sure how much benefit it has overall, or at least may have more of a perceived benefit than actually does.
 
FLdoc2011 said:
Serious question, are you guys really using xopenex pre-hospital? Using it often?

Even in the hospital setting we get push back due to its cost and I'm not sure how much benefit it has overall, or at least may have more of a perceived benefit than actually does.
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None of the 4 places I have worked at or done clinicals at in my area use it. To my knowledge, none of the other Fire/EMS places in the surrounding areas use it either. So at least here, the answer would be no.
 
Interesting. Everywhere I worked (back in the day) carried xopenex and we used it quite frequently. Lot of central FL has it as well and I do have involvement with those agencies. The feedback has been great and I use it personally in my house for my oldest daughter. It gets her less tachy and jittery and she often responds to the X over the A better and it seems to last much longer. When she is in distress, we used to do several A nebs but now we will kick off with an A neb and then give an X shortly after if she is still tight or wheezy. Works great.

I did a few cursory google searches and did not find anything against its usage pre-hospital....so what's the scoop from your agency?
 
FLdoc2011 said:
Serious question, are you guys really using xopenex pre-hospital? Using it often?

Even in the hospital setting we get push back due to its cost and I'm not sure how much benefit it has overall, or at least may have more of a perceived benefit than actually does.
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It's benefits aren't perceived to this papa of two asthmatic girls, especially when my 5 year old isn't bouncing around with "The Albuterol Jitters".

It is quite pricey though, so I can understand it not being commonplace in the prehospital setting.

Interesting to know it's prevalent in some systems though, as @akflightmedic pointed out.
 
akflightmedic said:
I use it personally in my house for my oldest daughter. It gets her less tachy and jittery and she often responds to the X over the A better and it seems to last much longer. When she is in distress, we used to do several A nebs but now we will kick off with an A neb and then give an X shortly after if she is still tight or wheezy. Works great.
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No kidding? Good to know. Our girls usually get a hit of, or nebulized Pulmicort when their asthma flares up. If it's bad enough it's followed with the X, if they can hold off then X is given at night.

Agreed, though; works like a charm.
 
We carry it, I've honestly never used it. I always go right to the Albuterol, out of habit.
 
DEmedic said:
We carry it, I've honestly never used it. I always go right to the Albuterol, out of habit.
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Interesting. If I had it I wouldn't give Albuterol a second thought. Again, after dealing with my two daughters and their asthma and seeing the difference in the two, at least with the kiddos, I would go straight for the Levabuterol everytime.

Admittedly, I had some of theirs as well when I had a touch of the pneumonia, good stuff:).
 
Wasn't in the forumarly for anywhere I ever ran. Occasionally would get orders (and a supply) for a pediatric IFT going to a children's hospital, but that was the exception.

Albuterol, Ipratropium, Duo-Neb, Brethine, ... going back a few years Aminophylline,...
 
In a land before time....
 
At least he didn't take way back to Theophylline...
 
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