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Pediatric status asthmaticus after initial care

Educational use only. Not clinically reviewed

10-year-old girl for first-hour treatment reconciliation, severe-nonresponse escalation, and serial reassessment. About 8 simulated minutes.

What you will practise

  • Reconcile the established asthma history, risk, verified first-hour care, and current whole-child trajectory.
  • Recognize persistent severe lower-airway obstruction after the verified initial-care bundle.
  • Activate immediate pediatric critical-care and airway-capable ownership with continuous reassessment.
  • Record experienced-team ownership of the supplied second-line care plan and qualified monitoring.
  • After elapsed time, review the fixed whole-child partial response without declaring durable recovery.
  • Hand off active obstruction, oxygen need, reported medication exposure, toxicity surveillance, failure triggers, open causes, and named owners.

Review and sources

Not clinically reviewed. No clinician has signed this scenario.

  • World Health Organization. WHO consolidated guidelines for the management of common childhood illness: management of asthma in children and adolescents and bronchiolitis in infants and young children. 2026. ISBN 978-92-4-012268-0.
  • Global Initiative for Asthma. Global Strategy for Asthma Management and Prevention. 2026 update.
  • Canadian Paediatric Society, Acute Care Committee. Managing an acute asthma exacerbation in children. 2021.

Every scenario in this module

Open Sim Lab is an educational simulator, not for clinical use. It is not a clinical decision-support tool, not a dosing calculator, and is not validated for any decision affecting a real patient.