Dear Kim,

In nursing, I have heard so many devastating stories, but Sabrina’s story is one of the most remarkable. I have no imagination to encompass the tragedy of a 13 year old girl death from anaphylaxis. It is beyond my emotions to read that Sabrina’s mother was unable to save her own child in spite of all her safety precautions, but she has made difference for other allergic children across Canada and the USA.

Kim, you are very right, nothing is more crucial for life threating allergies as immediate injection of epinephrine. Sabrina’s death could be preventable.

For now I am very proud of Sabrina’s mother; she has incarnated her grief into a mission “Sabrina’s Law”.

Why don’t you share this remarkable story with everyone on “Dear Kim”? Many of us will be encounter with similar situations and all of us should know how important………

T.

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T created the following case for a CELBANPrep Writing Assignment. She submitted it for her CELBANPrep Writing Tutoring. Over the past five years I have had many people write many cases about many incidents and illnesses, and T was the first to write about a patient in anaphylactic shock. Here is her case and my comment that inspired T to write the message above.

T wrote:

• Observation
  • a 53 years old patient was found on the floor
  • complained of difficulty breath after breakfast
• Assessment
  • assisted into comfortable position
  • VS collected: blood pressure was 94/56 mmHg, respirations were 40 breath/min, pulse oximetry was 90%.
  • Swelling of the face, neck
  •  Patient stated his allergy to peanuts
• Intervention
  • Doctor notified. The orders carried out.
• Documentation
  • All findings documented
• Evaluation
  • VS went back to his normal base line readings. Breathing normalized. Swelling disappeared.

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Dear T,

If a nurse did the assessment as you have here, the patient could die before the assessment is complete.