[1] The mainstay of treatment of acute asthma in children is 2-adrenergic agents such as salbutamol delivered in frequent high doses or continuously nebulized together with corticosteroids.

A study was undertaken to compare the uterine beta2-adrenoreceptor selectivity of fenoterol, hexoprenaline, ritodrine and salbutamol. The drugs in doses having an equivalent effect on uterine ...