BTS guideline for emergency oxygen use in adult patients

2008/10/01 by B. Ronan O’Driscoll, Luke Howard, Aidan Davison +1 · 3 citations
Medicine · Nursing · #Respiratory Support and Mechanisms #Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation #Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment #Medicine #Pulse oximetry #COPD #Oxygen saturation #Fraction of inspired oxygen #Guideline #Arterial blood #Anesthesia #Medical prescription #Oxygen therapy #Oxygen #Intensive care unit #Emergency department #Emergency medicine #Intensive care medicine #Mechanical ventilation #Internal medicine #Nursing

paper · pdf · doi:10.1136/thx.2008.102947

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Abstract

c Oxygen is a treatment for hypoxaemia, not breathlessness. (Oxygen has not been shown to have any effect on the sensation of breathlessness in non-hypoxaemic patients.)

Citations

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