
Bronchospastic BP Badness
A young man has been intubated for severe asthma. Now his blood pressure is heading for the floor. What are you going to do about it? Think you can save a life?

A young man has been intubated for severe asthma. Now his blood pressure is heading for the floor. What are you going to do about it? Think you can save a life?

RAGEback on RAGE III discussion of severe life-threatening acute asthma. Mary Shue on THAM, Greg Miller on lignocaine; Scott Weingart on NIV.

Rage Session III features 'What's bubbling up?', acute life-threatening asthma, 'medical reversal', Ether and so-called words of wisdom.

A 25-year-old lady Miss. Poor Compliance is rushed into your Emergency Department as a Priority 1. She is a brittle asthmatic and has been given 3x 5mg salbutamol nebs, and 0.5mg of adrenaline IM prehospital. On arrival Miss PC is…