Host: A lot times kids get medicine in school and they have a bunch of inhalers and what are the devices they, but no counts to seem, it just turns a locker, so this may not be an ideal practice isn’t?
Michael Marcus: It’s quite important that the person responsible for administering the medication should be aware how to judge, if there is sufficient medication left. Having a device in the school, at a grandparent’s house, and a babysitters is important to allow for medicines to be administered at each of these sides further to person is responsible must keep track of the doses.
Host: What are the problems of giving medicine to school, if the nurse is wondering at there is some excellent school nurses you know some -- not so good, so we keep this habit in attack in school, you will want the nurse to be placed in emergency room?
Michael Marcus: Not at all. The nurse is a starting point in the therapy, not the end point. The school nurse can be trained to judge whether the child is having true breathing difficulty from their asthma or not, can give the first dose of medication, but then should make sure that, that information is transmitted to the parent and the physician, so that proper follow-up can be arranged. If the patient doesn’t respond properly to that first dose of medication, the patient should be immediately brought to a physician’s attention either in your physician’s office or directly to the emergency room, depending on the severity, the episode. The nurse in a school is just a starting point, not the final end point.
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