2mg IN rarely needs to be titrated, I'm not 100% sure what the fear is? IV naloxone is far more unforgiving.
Perhaps I've just seen too much ham handed BVM use.
The number one reason is (possibly) misplaced accountability fears.
A very, very close number two is the FDA's stance on "adulterated gasses" makes the blenders a serious pain in the *** to obtain and carry around.
Worked one place that had it, and it was great. Maybe one day we can get it...
Last time I checked, my ambulances/aircraft weren't really any dirtier than an ED room. I've worked in both. Preventing contamination is more of a training issue than anything.
Ok, I'll admit I'm grumpy and I apologize for that.
That said, there's a number of ways to obtain the info you're looking for. Maybe not with a neat little clean number (that really means very little without a baseline ABG, but that's another story), but honestly good assessment skills won't...
Yes, and medicine is the real job of EMS providers. Not public safety, not firefighting...delivering medicine in out-of-hospital, transport and austere environments.
Yeah...no. You don't have a farking clue what you're talking about. If that's the case then why isn't every little old lady in a SNF wearing ETCO2? Or even every patient in an ICU? Get your head out of Backboard Action Monthly and into a physician level text if you want to learn medicine.
A lot of EMS providers like ETCO2 because it gives a nice, neat number that doesn't appear to give false positives nearly as much as SpO2. However many times they don't really understand what they're looking at and how different is actually is from PaCO2, and that hypercapneia almost never kills...