a freiend of mine was rushed in the hospital, conscious, had difficulty breathing and had a painful stomach ache, she said that she's not given an oxygen though she's surrounded by nurses. how many L iters of O2 must she be given?please help
Answer:
oxygen is given at from 2 to 8 liters a minute depending on the need. It can be dangerous to give oxygen to some types of patients which may be why the nursing staff waited until they had more information before using oxygen. In current settings a pulse-ox meter is placed on the finger- that will give you the oxygen level of the blood. The staff will go more by that than by the patients report of difficulty breathing which can be caused by many other things than low oxygen
lam sure the surrounding nurses will know
One of the first things they do when someone is having trouble breathing is to check their oxygen saturation level. If her O2 sats were in the 90s, she didn't need oxygen.
Oxygen is a drug. All drugs have indications (need for drug) and side effects (hazards of giving the drug). If she had an indication for oxygen, they would have addressed it. Health care workers are very good at the ABCs of advanced life support. A is for Airway, B is for breathing, and C is for circulation. Indications for oxygen include but are not limited to
low oxygen saturation
possible MI (heart attack)
possible strokeI am sure if your friend needed oxygen (a drug) the staff would have given it to her.
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