offlabel 1,480 Posts Mar 24, 2017 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
eiwneon 7 Posts Mar 24, 2017 are you saying that medical air is used in conjunction with pure oxygen in order to "fine tune" the FiO2 the patient receives?
RNNPICU, BSN, RN 1,262 Posts Specializes in PICU. Has 17 years experience. Mar 24, 2017 In order to help answer your question, I have some questions1. What context are you looking at.. meaning what type of pt2. What type of scenario3. What do you know about medical air and oxygen
