Raj, aged 5, was rushed into the emergency treatment room at your clinic, after he collapsed at school. He was known to have peanut allergy and apparently he ate some of a playmates biscuit at school. He soon developed breathing difficulty. Upon arrival he was semi conscious and cyanosed but had a palpable, albeit thready, pulse. (Thready is a common medical term for a feeble type pulse). He stopped breathing while under observation. His
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