5 On Your Health: Doctor Explains Medical Response To Olympic Swimmer’s Asthma Attack | WCVB Channel 5 Boston

5 On Your Health: Doctor Explains Medical Response To Olympic Swimmer’s Asthma Attack | WCVB Channel 5 Boston

When 21-year-old Slovakian swimmer Tamara Potocka finished her race, she suddenly collapsed on the deck. She had suffered an asthma attack with no access to her inhaler. Dr. Scott Hadland, chief of adolescent and young adult medicine at Mass General for Children, explains the medical response to athsma attacks and how a bystander might be able to help.

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