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1. Delivering oxygen via trach

   agehrels replied to agehrels's topic in General Nursing

   I am not sure exactly why. I am the MDS nurse and we have to collaborate to see if the patient is a safe admit on the nursing side and respiratory side and that was just the reasoning she gave the case managers. We have 10L concentrators so I wasn't ...

2. Delivering oxygen via trach

   agehrels replied to agehrels's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you! The RT had said that we could take a patient at that % but when whatever nurse at the hospital also documented the 9L she said no because the liter flow rate was too high and she thought they would be able to wean the patient down to 35% a...

3. Delivering oxygen via trach

   agehrels posted a topic in General Nursing

   I work at a long term/skilled nursing facility where we have multiple patients that receive oxygen by a trach collar. I myself have not had much experience with trachs. Our facility does not have piped in oxygen so we use a single chamber oxygen conc...