Patient Introduction
Sabina Vasquez is a 5-year-old Hispanic girl admitted today from the emergency room with a diagnosis of pneumonia. She has a history of asthma and has had several episodes requiring use of an albuterol inhaler at home Sabina has had an upper airway infection for the past few days. Earlier today she developed a fever of 39C (102.2F), so her mother brought her to the emergency room. She was placed on oxygen via nasal cannula at 2 L/min. She received a 380-mL bolus of normal saline and an albuterol nebulizer treatment at 5:00 PM. This improved her oxygen saturation to 94%. The chest x-ray revealed right lower lobe pneumonia with effusion. An intravenous infusion of D5 NS is infusing at 61 mL/hr. Sabina just got settled in bed, and her mother is at the bedside. ….(FYI both documentation and reflection , the queastion needs to ne answer directly .i will attached the documentation later when the prof give access….it should not be a general reflection) i will get access to the documentation in about 10hrs.
