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hypercapnia

Posted by denise96 @denise96, Dec 23, 2024

Does anyone on here suffer with hypercapnia? My husband has advanced copd and stage iv lung cancer and has gone into respiratory distress twice since September of this year. Actually it has happened since he was diagnosed with cancer. The hospital wanted him to wear a bipap but he refused. Are there any other options out there to keep this from happening that anyone knows of? Thank you.

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heart4wi | @heart4wi | 5 days ago
In reply to @kndaustin71 "It's not that picking up the medications is wrong. Most Hospice Services deliver directly to the..." + (show)
@kndaustin71

It's not that picking up the medications is wrong. Most Hospice Services deliver directly to the house. But if you have a loved one who is actively dying........why would you as the Hospice nurse want a family member to leave his/her bedside and not be with him/her when they passed away. My husband passed away 45 minutes after the nurse arrived......being a nurse I knew that he had only a very short period of time that he would leave us.

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I see. Makes perfect sense. Thank you.

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reneemc | @reneemc | 5 days ago
In reply to @heart4wi "Actually it's not that simple - and a pulse oximeter cannot diagnose hypercapnia. It's not that..." + (show)
@heart4wi

Actually it's not that simple - and a pulse oximeter cannot diagnose hypercapnia. It's not that your O2 is 70, so your co2 must be 30. Your O2 can appear high and you can still have hypercapnia, which is why the gold standard for diagnosing it is an arterial blood draw.

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Isn’t the ABG very painful?

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heart4wi | @heart4wi | 5 days ago
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@reneemc

Isn’t the ABG very painful?

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It is- but the last ones I had, they gave me lidocaine first. It was fine. Ask for it.

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