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What happens when you are hospitalized for asthma?

My partner has just been diagnosed and is keeping it under control with his inhaler, but we were told that if an attack continues he would need to get to A&E and perhaps be hospitalised... I am worried and would like to know what this would involve just in case

It depends on how he's admitted. If you take him by car, then he'll have to wait with the other patients until he's ready to be seen, and then they will do his observations (pulse, oxygen levels), and then treat him with a nebulizer and oxygen. If he recovers well, then they'll send him home, but normally people are kept in over night for observations.
If he arrives by ambulance, he will be seen straight away and therefore you won't have to wait, as they already have done his observations in the ambulance.
Hope this helps!

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