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snag that for free all right the drug of the day today is salmeterol brand name of this medication

is serivant note it is also contained within the product of

Advair, which is probably more commonly used, at least in my experience. So that's in combination with

an inhaled corticosteroid and solometerol there. So sommeterol is a long-acting beta-2 agonist. You'll see the acronym all

the time about laba therapy. So that stands for, again, long-acting beta-2 agonist. And with that,

it's an inhaled respiratory medication dry powder,

and it is used in the treatment of asthma and COPD.

Now, I do want to caution you the use in asthma.

So this drug cannot be used as monotherapy.

Okay, very, very important to remember that.

And there's actually boxed warnings due to an increased risk of death

when this drug, solmederal, is used as monotherapy.

Now, it obviously can be used in combination for the treatment of asthma when it is used with an inhaled corticosteroid.

And if you remember the asthma guidelines, when we need a controller medication, we generally start, or we do always start with an inhaled corticosteroid

taken on a daily basis if we're going to do maintenance therapy. And then we don't switch

if, you know, we still need more coverage. We add on therapy from there. So generally

inhaled corticosteroid, bump up the dose, and then if

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