W EMERGENCY: WHEN THE PATIENT CAN’T BREATHE
hen the middle-aged man arrived at the Emergency Department (ED) at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) Rahway, he couldn’t get more than one word out. It was clear to Lauren Trattner, DO, Associate Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine, that he was laboring to breathe. “He was leaning forward, using his abdominal muscles to breathe and making a sound known as stridor—a high-pitched, whistling sound,” she says. “It’s similar to
REMEDIES RANGE FROM A PERIOD OF REST TO CREATING AN EMERGENCY AIRWAY OPENING. LAUREN TRATTNER, DO
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