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11111nata11111 [884]
3 years ago
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Your unit is on the scene of a call for a​ 19-year-old female who is having an asthma attack. Her pulse ox is in the​ mid-90s, a

nd you hear bilateral wheezing with auscultation. What is your initial concern for this conscious patient with respiratory​ distress?
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Reika [66]3 years ago
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That she is intaking a sufficient amount of oxygen with adequate tidal volume so that her organs remain perfused. If she is not taking in sufficient oxygen she will goninto shock due to the lack of oxygen before seizing, going into Cardiac Arrest, and expiring.

You need to provide some form of supplementary oxygen if she does not have adequate tidal volume and her Spo2 has the potential to get worse so you'd automatically hook her up to oxygen via an NRB. If her respirations begin to fail you provide positive pressure ventilation via BVM.
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