medical air (21%) vs oxygen (100%)

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what are the indications for each of these?

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What does your book tell you?

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0 what are the indications for each of these?

Air is used to cut pure O2 in order to be able to adjust FiO2. I suppose you could use pure medical nitrogen too, but if you made a mistake and forgot to turn on the O2, you'd kill someone. Air is safer because you'll never go below 0.21 FiO2

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are you saying that medical air is used in conjunction with pure oxygen in order to "fine tune" the FiO2 the patient receives?

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Specializes in PICU.

In order to help answer your question, I have some questions

1. What context are you looking at.. meaning what type of pt

2. What type of scenario

3. What do you know about medical air and oxygen

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