Let’s look specifically at dexamethasone, a common corticosteroid in emergency medicine, and use current research to describe what the drug does and look at select situations in prehospital care ...
Corticosteroid therapy must be tapered because of its interactions with the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis. The hypothalamus secretes corticotropin releasing factor, which acts ...
Potent corticosteroids, such as prednisolone, dexamethasone, and betamethasone, increase intraocular pressure more frequently than weaker corticosteroids.