Too much oxygen?

[RN_EMT]

Hi, I have a patient with low oxygen levels(72%-80% normal). I was always pushed as a paramedic to promote oxygen(different theory of medicine) and as an RN your taught risks and benefits of too much oxygen. This nurse was going to report a RN on the case for accidentally leaving the patient @5lpm instead of the prescribe 3lpm stating this was too much and was harming the patient. I personally think it was kind of overboard?????? Comments??

[psu_213, BSN, RN]

Doctors write some absurd orders at times, though. I wouldn't go by an order except to manage that one patient by legal standards. It's not a case study, in and of itself, for sure.

No, it's not…However, I was just giving an example of a situation where a specific oxygen level was prescribed (even a rather low one), and the doctor did want to be called for a change in said level.