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    O2's Place in the Initial Assessment

    I'm working off memory a bit. From what I can remember when doing NR skills, they always wanted it performed in B and not doing so was a fail. I could be wrong, and hopefully I am. Voicing that you're considering it but going to continue your assessment before making the decision to apply it...
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    O2's Place in the Initial Assessment

    It sounds like my original post may have been misleading. Mentioning the need for "high flow O2" after the circulatory findings is not my personnel feeling, it's what is typical of NREMT's expectation of treatment. From a real-world personal standpoint, I'm very against the idea of giving...
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    O2's Place in the Initial Assessment

    You're definitely touching on the bigger problem here. What if with all of those signs given, you get to the vitals section (waaaay at the bottom of the assessment) and you find out they're sat'ing at 100% on room air? The majority of research points towards O2 still not being indicated. But...
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    O2's Place in the Initial Assessment

    Time to vent on a long standing pet peeve of mine... It's the fact that the dicision to apply O2 in every NREMT/Non-NREMT assessment skills sheet falls in the "Breathing" category of the intitial assessment, and making a decision at that point is pass/fail criteria. The problem with this...
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