Asthma: New Diagnosis

Case history

Charles Lepage, 7, has been hospitalized since yesterday for bilateral superinfected bronchitis. A diagnosis of de novo asthma has also been made.

Charles is a very athletic boy who plays on a hockey team and a soccer team.

The parents are taking turns at his bedside.

It is 2:00 PM. You come into the room to take the vital signs and administer IV ATB. Charles’s mother is there, and they are watching TV.