Re: Oxygen administration (was Benefit for Trauma Patients)

[Guest guest]

The reference to ventilation brought this question to mind: What guidelines do

various departments have in place for oxygen administration? I ask because I

still occasionally encounter EMS personnel who seem to think that anyone who

needs oxygen atuomatically gets high flow via a nonrebreather. By my way of

thinking, this is not only an outdated way of thinking, but in some cases a

harmful way of thinking.

Maxine Pate

hire EMS

---- Original message ----

>Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:37:54 EDT

>From: wegandy1938@...

>Subject: Re: Benefit for Trauma Patients

>To: texasems-l

>

> Further, intubation is not the standard, ventilation

> is.