What medication may be used to treat laryngeal edema?
a. Racemic epinephrine c. Albuterol
b. Succinylcholine d. Morphine
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Management consists of placing the patient in the upright position; using cool, humidified oxygen; and administering nebulized racemic epinephrine. Reintubation is performed only if the patient's symptoms cannot be controlled with an inhalation treatment within 30 minutes, hypercarbia persists, or the patient appears to be in respiratory distress.
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