A Resident calls me and says "Hey, so I have this kiddo in room 8 who sounds pretty bad, could you take a listen and see what you think? If you agree we can probably start him on a continuous albuterol or something. I don't know if you can but the Mom also asked if you could look at her home nebulizer because it wasn't working earlier"
I say "Yeah, I will go ahead and take the stuff in there for the albuterol neb. I don't know if I can help with the home nebulizer, thats really something she needs to ask her pharmacist or home-supply company about"
He replies "Yeah, I figured, but maybe its something simple"
"Okay, Ill be right over there"
I go over, this kid is having such a hard time I give him almost a max-respiratory-distress score, start the continuous nebulizer and then look at the home nebulizer machine.
I plug everything in, put some normal saline in and it immediately begins misting.
Mom says "Wow! I didn't know there was a button on the side to turn it on!"
I handle the situation gracefully and full of tact and then go talk to the resident about positive pressure for the kiddo and let him know I fixed the home nebulizer.
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