Medic119

IN reference to the COPD patient, There is absolutely no reason why anyone should withhold high flo 0/2 from a person that is in respiratory distress. You will not knock out anyone's hypoxic drive to breath in your short transport time to the ER. The individual that "chewed your head off" for placing the starved 0/2 pt on high flo 0/2 was wrong. I have been in EMS for 31 years, 23 of those years as a paramedic. If I have a patient in respiratory distress, I will use what I have in my arsenal to keep them going instead of intubating them. High Flo 0/2, Albuterol treatments, CPAP, and then if all else fails either the King airway or intubate the patient.