RT Book, Section
A1 Broderick, Kerry B.
A1 Zane, Richard D.
A2 Hung, Orlando
A2 Murphy, Michael F.
SR Print(0)
ID 55869477
T1 Chapter 21. Patient with Deadly Asthma Requires Intubation
T2 Management of the Difficult and Failed Airway, 2e
YR 2012
FD 2012
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-162344-5
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55869477
RD 2024/04/24
AB This  26-year-old  man  has  a  long  history  of  severe  asthma.  His  trachea  has  been  intubated  many  times  in  the  past  for  his  asthma,  most  recently  2  months  ago  during  which  he  spent  a  week  in  the  intensive  care  unit  (ICU).  He  arrives  in  the  emergency  department  (ED)  after  an  emergency  medical  service  (EMS)  transport  of  15  minute  during  which  he  has  been  receiving  continuous  aerosolized  salbutamol  (albuterol,  Ventolin)  via  a  nebulizer.  He  arrives  with  marked  respiratory  distress.  He  is  awake,  diaphoretic,  and  is  speaking  in  two-word  sentences.