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Grandmother has low oxygen, today her dr said it was 88%. she normally gets esi w/ sedation as needed for back pain. wait to repeat til o2 better?
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It will: depend on the goal of therapy for your GM. If the goal is to control pain and make her comfortable then your physicians may be okay with that. Other wise oxygen supplementation and further care may be needed
Answered 7/13/2014
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No: They can just give her oxygen these ppis née COpd and maybe needs to see her pulmonary doc too
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