An anxious patient enters the emergency room with angioedema of the lips and tongue, dyspnea, urticaria, and wheezing after having eaten a peanut butter sandwich. What should be the nurse's first intervention?
a. Apply cool compresses to urticaria
b. Provide oxygen per non-rebreathing mask
c. Cover patient with a warm blanket
d. Prepare for venipuncture for the delivery of IV medication
ANS: B
Provision of oxygen is the initial primary intervention. Anaphylaxis may advance very rapidly and the patient may have to be intubated. Covering the patient with a warm blanket is not wrong, but not an initial intervention.
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