Assessment 2 – Case study 2 Due Date: Monday Week XXXXXXXXXXMay 2017) Note: This assignment must be submitted by midnight Darwin, N.T. time Topic: Respiratory System (Topic 2) The following is a case...

Assessment 2 – Case study 2 Due Date: Monday Week 10 (08 May 2017) Note: This assignment must be submitted by midnight Darwin, N.T. time Topic: Respiratory System (Topic 2) The following is a case study with four questions. You are required to respond to all four questions. Response to each question should not exceed 250 words and the length of the entire assignment is 1000 words. Assignments are due at midnight. Any assignment submitted after midnight NT time incurs a 10% penalty per working day i.e. 10% penalty is incurred 5 minutes past midnight for every day it is late. After five days (taken from midnight) the assignment receives a 'zero'.CASE STUDY Geronimo is a 12-year-old boy lives in Melbourne, with asthma diagnosed at age 6. For the last 10 days Geronimo has been experiencing an upper respiratory tract infection with unresolved cough and breathlessness. He has been taking cough syrup but this has not improved his symptoms. He also had run out of his usual asthma medication salbutamol (2 puffs per night) for three days. It was late November and There was a huge thunderstorm two days ago.Geronimo presented to hospital with an exacerbation of asthma. On presentation, he was speaking in phrases, his heart rate was 130 beats/minute, respiratory rate (RR) was 25 breaths per minute. His SpO2 was 94% on room air and he had an audible wheeze. His FEV1 was 1.64 L (55% of predicted). Geronimo was administered salbutamol 100 µg 10 puffs via a pressurised metered dose inhaler and spacer and oral prednisolone 0.5mg/kg. He responded relatively quickly to the treatment; his RR decreased to 21 breaths/minute and he could talk in paragraphs. He remained tachycardic but his FEV1 improved to 2.2 L (74% of predicted value), demonstrating a significant bronchodilator response of 34%.His mother who was also present provided a history of Geronimo’s asthma. Both Geronimo and his mother initially reported that Geronimo was well until he caught a cold. However, when probing specifically about his asthma symptoms and overall control Geronimo acknowledged that he had difficultly playing sport especially during his soccer games on Saturdays; he wheezed and coughed when laughing, h