An asthmatic patient in severe distress with wheezing and dyspnea is admitted to the emergency department
After a conducting a full assessment and obtaining a pretreatment baseline, you start the patient on albuterol with a small-volume jet nebulizer. You should continue assessing and documenting all appropriate variables before and after each treatment until what point?
a. The patient's symptoms are relieved or the peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR)/forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEVl) ex-ceeds 70% of "personal best."
b. The patient's wheezing disappears and the intensity of breath sounds decreases.
c. The patient's symptoms are relieved or the PEFR/FEVl returns to the predicted nor-mal.
d. The patient's SpO2 is above 90% and the PEFR/FEVl returns to the predicted nor-mal.
ANS: A
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