Every episode, even asthma, has the potential to be fatal. That is made abundantly clear by the untimely and terrible death of 12-year-old Ryan Gibbons.
Ryan was a lively young man who enjoyed riding motorcycles and going on hikes in the woods, but he would soon die from a deadly error. He had an asthma episode at school back in 2012.
At the start of the incident, he could have easily utilized his inhaler, but the life-saving tool had been stolen. But he would not go home that day.
While playing soccer at school, Ryan had an asthma attack and couldn’t get to his rescue medicine, which was kept in the school office. The child in pain needed his inhaler to clear his airways.
