Seconded. In fact I saw a patient yesterday who someone had started on 24% oxygen
"because he was COPD". His pCO2 was 2.6!
It's got to serious urban myth status, closely followed by, "Asthmatics mustn't receive
aspirin" which appears to have been started by an ignorant pharmacist.
Best wishes,
Rowley Cottingham
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