A teenage girl suffering an asthma attack places a call to 9-1-1. This segment of episode 605 originally aired on October 18, 1994 on CBS. Vote for Rescue 911 at the links following the video.
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National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. National Institutes of Health. Childhood Asthma Management Program: Asthma Feelings. AVA19988VNB1, 1996. The Asthma Feeling video explores the way asthmatic children feel about their disease and ways to cope with being ‘different’. The video is designed to help children feel more comfortable with having asthma and not allow it to cause undue interference in the lifestyle of the person. Producer: National Institutes of Health. Creative Commons license: Public Domain Asthma is a chronic medical condition. It has been defined by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute as a common chronic disorder of the airways that is complex and characterized by variable and recurring symptoms, airflow obstruction, bronchial hyperresponsiveness (bronchospasm), and an underlying inflammation. The interaction of these features of asthma determines the clinical manifestations and severity of asthma and the response to treatment. Public attention in the developed world has recently focused on asthma because of its rapidly increasing prevalence, affecting up to one in four urban children. Asthma is caused by a complex interaction of environmental and genetic factors that researchers do not yet fully understand.[55] These factors can also influence how severe a persons asthma is and how well they respond to medication. As with other complex diseases, many environmental and genetic factors have been suggested as causes of asthma, but not all studies …
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In this episode Roy Shaw, EMT-Paramedic receives a question from a student that would like to know how to handle an asthma attack if they don’t have asthma medicine. What are the symptoms?, how are they treated?, what if it takes a long time for the ambulance to arrive?. Be sure to watch this video to learn how to recognize and treat this potentially life threatening emergency.
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Asthma doesn’t need to be a prescription to sit on the sidelines of life! A plethora of treatments can help sufferers boast normal, active existences.Watch More Health Videos at Health Guru: www.healthguru.com
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