PALS Prehospital Respiratory Scenario


The quiz
You are working on the floor of a medical unit when you are called to the room of a 1-year-old who was admitted earlier from the emergency department where they were treated for respiratory distress and croup like symptoms. You arrived to find the child in obvious distress breathing 64/min with an oxygen saturation of 84% on 2 liters of blow by oxygen. Temperature is 97.4 F. Heart rate is 160 with a BP of 75/43. There is loud stridor on inhalation. Weight is 12kg. After activating the emergency response system from the ED you continue to treat your patient.


about 3–5 minutes