Reactive airway disease

So a memory trick, SIVO soothes, DES disturbs.

Think about that when you think about which volatile anesthetics are good for reactive airways.

So let's talk about treating bronchospasm under anesthesia.

We're going to go back to that patient from the beginning.

If you don't have chest pain or reflux, but you may feel tightness in your chest, that's still abnormal and every disease I just talked about can cause simple tightness.

When you don't get enough oxygen, your airway, let's say like asthma, reactive airway, or you have an allergic reaction, let's say to a bee sting, You know, you may only have minutes to address this.

It may be a medical emergency.

And so this is why you need to have that controlled.

I know some of my friends don't want their kids to be on inhalers, yet their kids are constantly coughing and tired, and I bet they feel tightness, but they just can't express it.

The problem is reactive airway or asthma causes tissue damage, and that may be irreversible.

So if you have asthma, or if you're taking care of someone with asthma, it's important to do three things.

Remove the triggers, learn to use a stethoscope, and use your prescription medicines when you have to.