Respiratory Emergency

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Assessment of the airway is the first consideration in any emergency situations. The respiratory emergencies are always terrifying to a patient and challenging both to a patient and the emergency staff. Common respiratory emergencies are asthmatic attack, or a patient with acute decompensated chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or dyspnea. For an emergency nurse several important serial action steps must be taken to manage respiratory emergencies. First, a rapid assessment of acute dyspnea must yield the correct working diagnosis or diagnoses. Second, once a working diagnosis has been established, targeted therapy must proceed aggressively and without delay. Third, a patient must be continuously and frequently reassessed to ensure that the response to therapy is appropriate, and the care team must be ready to quickly change course if progress is not being made.

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