-> I always thought it was stupid, and I guess I was right. These are
-> the same people that would yell when we brought COPD patients in on
-> high flow O2, because it would make them stop breathing. Another
-> myth with amazing resilience.
 
Ya know, I finally saw a case where there might have been a 50-50
percent chance that the pt's resp. arrest was caused by
overoxygenation. Severe COPDer, physician at E.R., also our med control
doc, said that it was that or it was just time for the pt. to die. I
would have figured the latter. Pt. hadn't been on NRB O2 but for about
5 minutes and resp. arrested as the crew brought him out of the back of
the box (I was standing nearby and made them aware that they're pt.
"doesn't look good"). Anyways, that's the only one where there was a
chance that it was secondary to the O2 that the doctor had been
involved in. So, I don't put much stock in that theory...
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