To bag or not to bag?!?!?!?!

I'd say based on the given information you are right on. Resp. rate above 30 definately qualifies as inadequate respirations and warrants a BVM. However, we all need to remember to be careful to treat the patient and not the machine. Even if the SpO2 reads 84%, look at the patient, their color, general appearance, etc. I've had perfectly healthy, non resp-distress pt's who's sat has been read on the maching as 80%....not likely.
 
trauma1534 said:
She was just combative, cyanotic and just acting wierd! Mumbling as her upper extremities trembled, or jerked. She tried to fight everything we did.
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Sounds like hypoxia to me. As far as bagging a pt with tachypnea and low O2 sats, you did the right thing.
 
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