Epiglottitis Case Study

and treated, saw cases of croup and learned how the disease differed from epiglottitis, and saw children with severe asthmatic attacks being carried into the emergency room, and following the appropriate treatment, allowed to walk out of the emergency room as if nothing had ever happened.
Call taught me many things about people as well. I learned a claim by a North Philadelphia mother that her child had "weasels in his chest" really meant the child was asthmatic and wheezing. I also learned, when a North Philadelphia mother told you her baby had diarrhea twenty times during the day, it was usually wise to believe her because she probably brought each of the twenty dirty diapers to the emergency room as proof.
Call also showed me what stress …show more content…
No one knew what a pediatric vein introducer was, much less where one could be found.
Decidedly unimpressed by Alby, B.J. looked at me and calmly asked me to go to the nursery to get Alby his pediatric vein introducer. Without asking any questions, I ran through the hospital to the only department where this apparently indispensable item could be found.
Arriving at the nursery, my panting and unintentionally loud request for the hour's most coveted item managed to wake up all of the babies and start them crying. With a quick thanks and apology for waking up the entire nursery, I flew back to the emergency room.
Arriving in the E.R., I handed Alby the pediatric vein introducer, a small plastic toothpick with a curved end. With one swipe, Alby used the small device to catheterize the vein. Arrogantly announcing the line had been established, Alby took off his gloves and threw them into the air as he walked out of the room.
With the intravenous line finally established, B.J. requested a number of different drugs with which to continue advanced cardiac life support. B.J. seemed to go through the motions of the code, but he did so as if he realized there was no hope for the