This form can be completed by parent or doctor
2. Does your child require asthma medication everyday?
3. Does your child need extra asthma medication before exercise?
4. Medication to be taken when your child gets asthma symptoms
5. Changes to daily medication if asthma worsens
8. If a student has an asthma attack, leaders would follow the steps below to the best of their ability (Guidelines from the Thoracic Society of Australia & NZ)
| Step 1 |
- Be calm and reassuring
- Sit the student comfortably upright
- Send for the Asthma First Aid Kit
- Students to use own blue RELIEVER puffer if available. If not use the First Aid Kit puffer or borrow from someone else.
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| Step 2 |
- Give 4 puffs of blue RELIEVER puffer with delay - Ventolin, Bricanyl, Respolin or Asmol
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| Step 3 |
- Wait 4 minutes
- If little improvement, repeat step 2
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| Step 4 |
Call an ambulance immediately if:
- Little or no improvement (or if in doubt)
- SEVER BREATHING DIFFICULTIES at any time
- BLUENESS around the mouth
Keep giving 4 puffs every 4 minutes until ambulance arrives (steps 2 & 3).
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I agree with this emergency treatment.
Please contact me if my childs asthma worsens OR if he/she requires emergency treatment.