Asthma Management 101
Monday, July 19th, 2004 at 6:25 am
Here is an example of what not to do if you have asthma:
1) Run out of your albuterol.
2) Do not refill your albuterol prescription.
3) Let this go on for days, so that upon arrival, you are breathing 38 times a minute and have an oxygen saturation in the 60's.
4) Wake up EMS crew at 4am, even though you were having these symptoms at an earlier hour, which it would have been much more decent of you to call at.
5) Ask crew if you can smoke. (with O2 around, oh and wait an SpO2 of 68.)
6) Ask crew if we can take your daughter too, for evaluation of a days-old laceration.
Oh well, I guess I should be glad it wasn't her anti-psychotic drugs that she ran out of…. :-/
Back to sleep 
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