TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 21. Patient with Deadly Asthma Requires Intubation A1 - Broderick, Kerry B. A1 - Zane, Richard D. A2 - Hung, Orlando A2 - Murphy, Michael F. PY - 2012 T2 - Management of the Difficult and Failed Airway, 2e 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. SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/19 UR - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55869477 ER -