Asthma Narrative Essay

In March of 2013, a teenage boy visiting a Tim Hortons franchise in London, Ontario suffered an asthma attack. The 17-year old boy was having difficulty breathing and gasping for air as her tried to get the attention of employees.

Jane’s asthma was acute severe. Initially to alleviate some of Jane’s breathlessness she was sat up right in the bed and supported with pillows to improve air entry. Due to her low oxygen saturations she was placed on 40% oxygen via Hudson mask (BTS 2006), as Jane was mouth breathing the mask was the appropriate device to use to ensure adequate oxygenation (Walsh 2002). According to Inwald et al (2001) hypoxemia is frequently a primary cause in numerous asthma related deaths. By administering oxygen promptly, for acute severe asthma, serious hypoxemia

There was no documentation of complications with bleeding or any other abnormal findings. You were kept overnight for and admitted to acute inpatient level of care with a discharge the next day. There was no hemodynamic (blood), pulmonary (lung), neurological (nervous system) or metabolic (chemical process) reasons for the acute level of care. The services and interventions provided could have been done in the observation setting. There were no positive test results or other findings after evaluation by the doctors that would have requested an acute level of care. You could have been kept in observation according to guidelines and with no documented complications confirmed through evaluation and testing you could have been discharged from observation with an ambulatory plan of

On the eve of my seventeenth birthday, I was having a birthday party with my family, and I was not feeling well. My asthma had been bad for the past few months, but seemed to be worsening. I even had to leave my party for a little bit to take an aerosol treatment. That seemed to help, but only for about thirty minutes. I started to wheeze again, and I was not able to catch my breath. I have had asthma all of my life and have been in the hospital several times for exacerbations. After my family had left, my parents knew I needed to go to the emergency room. I took my rescue inhaler right before my parents and I left to go to the emergency room. We ended up going to Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Once I arrived, there was a long line ahead of me, but a triage nurse listened to my wheezing and sent me straight to the front. The nurses seemed panicked when they took me back to a critical care section of the ER. When I got in a room, I knew it was serious because there were five nurses and two doctors. I ended up staying at Children’s Hospital for a week and being on oral steroids for four months. Because of my asthma, I missed a lot of school during my junior year. I was on oral steroids for a long period of time, so it began to weaken my immune system.

Have you ever wondered how it would feel to have asthma. Have you ever died and come back to life. Well both of them happened to me and here is my story

The day I nearly died was when I was in year five around April, I had taken school off for a day because I was sick. My mum had stayed home with me and my sister and brother went to school with my cousins. I was relaxing on the couch watching some TV and I had a machine for my asthma when I couldn’t breathe properly. This machine was a mask like for some oxygen but we added some medicine to it for the asthma. When I had a cold it would affect my breathing and my asthma this is what had caused me to have an asthma attack. From what I can remember was when my cousins had come inside the house with my sister and brother after school, when they had left I started coughing and coughing I thought I was ok until I had kept on coughing and not breathing.

Asthma is considered as one of the most common chronic and complex respiratory conditions which involve both environmental and genetic factors (1,2). It is such a condition of the airways presents as constriction of the bronchi and bronchioles in response to irritants. The vascular resistance of the pulmonary system will increase as constriction leads to a smaller vascular diameter (3,4). The prevalence of the disease is predicted to rise making it one of the major life-threatening disorders. In the UK, the prevalence of asthma showed an increase two to three fold from 1955 to 2004 (5). Pharmacological interventions can be used such as bronchodilators. Salbutamol is an example of such a drug that alleviates airway

You should use your inhaler exactly as it was prescribed. You should try your best to stay away from what triggers your asthma or your asthma attacks. Last but not least, always carry your rescue inhaler or your controller inhaler just in case you have an asthma attack at an unexpected time. Asthma is very common in the general population. Eight out of ten people get asthma but most grow out of it. I believe asthma is neutral. I believe it is neutral because you get asthma when you are young and most grow out of it. When you grow out of it you will never get it again or have to worry about asthma attacks. The only way you will get it again is if you smoke. Also if you don’t grow out of it, you will have an inhaler that will help you breathe again when you have an asthma attack. It is rare if the inhaler doesn’t work and you

Although these symptoms can commonly occur in other chest diseases, in asthma it is a characteristic that can occur in an aggravated attack. This may be either brief episodes of chest tightness lasting a matter of minutes or a prolonged episode of wheezing lasting up to and hour, which can merge into a full blown attack of asthma. (D.J.Lane, 1996)

examined my ankle and performed serious strength tests and palpitations, gave me an ice pack,

“He can’t save me,” he said smiling at the choir as the bottle of wine swayed in his pocket. Nevertheless, hoping to communicate the message while trying to minister with conviction, the choir sang out, “Joy to the world, he has

At the age of five I was diagnosed with severe Asthma, joining some 350 million people who have this chronic and well known illness. This discovery was a result of many tests, and the ruling out of the temporary ‘Sports-Induced’ Asthma that had been pinned to my breathing issues since I was two. Due to my lungs not wanting to put in the work, I had always been held back during school games, and was never allowed to run around with friends for very long. If I had considered holding back to be difficult, I was not prepared for how terrible it would be to simply walk up steps after my mom learned of my true condition. I did not understand how a illness could change someone’s view of me, or how belittled a life-threatening chronic illness could be. But I did know that a life of being scared and tied down was not what I wanted, so I charged forward and took control of Asthma, which tried to take control of me.

I remember staying up late at night to help my sister with her breathing treatments. Her purple dinosaur breathing mask covered most of her face leaving only her eyes. My parents and I all sat watching her sometimes my mom or dad would pipe in with “take deeper breaths” or “relax you’re okay”. I remember feeling remorseful for she had to choose choir or flute since her lungs could not handle how much she was overexerting them. I could do both if I wanted to I remember thinking. Just because she had asthma didn’t mean she wouldn’t play with me or we wouldn’t play tag, we did everything normal kids did. Just sometimes she had to stop prematurely. I don’t think Kaitlyn or I realized how much money it was to have inhalers, breathing machines and

Holly and I had planned on having a normal day of Advanced Science, but I never expected to become the most famous person in Indiana. Holly and I step into the science room, and the smell of chemicals hit my nose like a truck. Holly and I had been best friends since kindergarten, and we decided to come to the same college for science. We look around for an empty spot to start class, but the only spot open was with a boy who sat by himself, reading.

Once I arrived to the hospital, I was amazed by how big it was. People entering and exiting all the time, it was a real chaos. I checked in and I was told to wait in the waiting room. As I entered the room a very strange smell suffocated me, sick people looked miserable and depressed, and others looked sorrowful. At that moment, I was isolated from the world thinking about myself and if I was going to survive after the surgery, even knowing that it was a really easy procedure. The nurse called me and said that the doctor needed a tomography scan because he needed more details. After looking at the results, the doctor was surprised. He talked to my parents and I felt that something was wrong. The doctor