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I'm a registered therapist. Nurses drive me nuts bc almost all the ones I work with do t listen when I tell them the patient can Be given 1 or more than 2 liters. It's like the magic number? Best way to know is look for a blood gas result. That will tell you if the patient is a CO2 retainer. Therefore you certainly don't want to give that patient high o2 but as long as the patient's Po2 is around 60 mmhg Them it's fine. Get it out of ur head that just bc a person has COPD means he or She can only get 2-4 liters. Depends on the blood gas and whether the patient body has converted from an aerobic to anaerobic