Background Oxygen therapy is commonly administered to patients with acute cardiovascular conditions during hospitalisation. Both hypoxaemia and hyperoxia can cause harm, making it essential to ...

Oxygen administration over the years can be summarised as a “Goldilocks phenomenon.” The risk of inadequate patient oxygenation was recognised in the earliest days of anaesthesia, leading to the ...

Individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) experience improved breathing symptoms and dyspnea with use of automated oxygen administration. Automated oxygen administration (AOA) was ...

A FIFTH memorandum in the Emergency Medical Services Series has been issued by the Ministry of Health entitled “Oxygen Administration—Indications, Methods and Types of Apparatus” (H.M. Stationery ...

FISH BREATHE through their gills. But some also breathe through their bottoms. Vertebrate guts are abundantly supplied with blood vessels, to enable them to absorb digested food. That means they can, ...

Section of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, LSU School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, United States For short periods, even without the presence of red blood cells, hyperbaric oxygen can ...

Oxygen is one of the most important treatments available to patients with cardiopulmonary disease. Here’s an updated guide to the equipment. As primary-care providers have become increasingly adept at ...