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Oxygen use must clear legal hurdles.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
I read the article "Clearing the Air" (June 2005) and just finished going over the comments from other readers. One major point missed by both the author and the letter writers was the criminal issue of using oxygen.
In most states, such as Colorado, oxygen is a prescription drug. People who can administer oxygen are physicians. EMTs, paramedics and other licensed personnel (nurses, physician assistants, etc.) can administer oxygen following a protocol from their medical directors.
The final group of people who can administer oxygen are "medical delegates, an artful term used in Colorado to describe nonlicensed employees of a physician performing work for the physician. In Colorado, a medical delegate must have been trained by the physician, and work under that physician's supervision and liability program. The physician must document the training and actions of the medical delegate. The physician must be within 30 minutes of the delegate when the delegate is performing such acts at the direction of the physician.
So for a lifeguard to administer oxygen in Colorado, that person must have been trained by a ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Oxygen use must clear legal hurdles.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)