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- From: jung@base.bellcore.com (Eric Jung)
- Subject: Re: MD & Rn want to run it all.....
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 17:20:27 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.172027.20426@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
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- In article <01GOCGNOKNQQ9KMG3B@ritvax.isc.rit.edu>, JAT8419@RITVAX.BITNET (TRAUMA JUNKIE) writes:
- |> I was at the ER after delivering a COPD pt. with head trauma to the ER...
- |> they blasted me for giving the pt 15LPM of O2. they said no matter what
- |> always give the COPD pt 2 lpm via nasal cannula. They said even with
- |> child birth, avulsions...etc.. the only time they said full flow was during
- |> a full arrest.
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- Well, this certainly contradicts what I've been taught in NJ EMT course
- and by senior members of my squad. As far as I recall, if there's a
- significant risk of shock or breathing difficulties, we should give
- high flow O2. (Someone else mentioned SOB; I don't know how to interpret
- that in a medical sense.) The rationale is that it's easier to handle
- respiratory arrest than a full code. On the conscious COPD pt, you can
- also repetitively ask them to take deep breaths.
-
- How do others feel about this issue?
-
-
- Eric -- EMT-A Franlin-Somerset FAS
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- Eric C. Jung Bellcore
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