I go into my patients room and find him to be S.O.B and have anxiety. He is already on 2 liters of 02 via NC as ordered. I tell him to deep breath while I call the doctor. His pulse ox was 85-88. While I'm calling the doctor my supervisor remains with him. So I get an order to increase o2 to 3 liters. I come back to increase the o2. As I trace the o2 tubing I find that the patient was never connected to the o2 concentrator in his room instead he was connected to an EMPTY portable 02 tank which caused him to become hypoxic. I felt sooooo dumb and went through calling the doc for no reason at all.
The patients room was so cluttered and 02 tubing everywhere. Next time I'm going to trace the tubing and make sure he's connected to either the concentrator or a Filled o2 portable. Oh well. Totally felt like an idiot.
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