title: Towards evidence-based emergency medicine: Best BETs from the Manchester Royal Infirmary. BET 2: Steroid therapy in the treatment of intractable hyperemesis gravidarum.
abstract: A short-cut review was performed to evaluate whether steroids could be an effective therapy in hyper-emesis gravidarum. A database search revealed 9 papers relevant to this question and the details of each study methods and results were displayed in a table. The quality of these studies was generally low. There is only weak evidence that steroids could be an effective treatment for intractable hyper-emesis gravidarum.
authors.affiliation: Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, UK.
authors.forename: Siu Ling
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Poon
mesh_terms: D055416:Evidence-Based Emergency Medicine; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006939:Hyperemesis Gravidarum / Q000188:drug therapy*; D011247:Pregnancy; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D013256:Steroids / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D013256:Steroids