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Oxygen therapy

Nursing Standard, 1998
This article aims to give a general overview of oxygen therapy, both in the short and long term. Various methods of oxygen delivery and storage are discussed, along with the nurse's role in caring for a patient receiving oxygen therapy.
L, Dunn, H, Chisholm
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Oxygen therapy

British Journal of Nursing, 1995
It is essential that nurses understand the potentially harmful effects of oxygen therapy. This article reviews the biochemical role of oxygen, particularly its vital physiological function, and discusses clinical situations in which oxygen is used as therapy.
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Oxygen Therapy in COPD

Respiratory Care, 2023
Long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) is a mainstay treatment for patients with severe resting hypoxemia secondary to chronic respiratory conditions including COPD. The evidence for LTOT is based on two trials that are now several decades old but have been insufficiently revisited.
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Oxygen Therapy for Bronchiolitis

Pediatrics, 2007
An American Academy of Pediatrics clinical practice guideline on the diagnosis and management of bronchiolitis was published recently in Pediatrics .1 This important guideline was evidence based and intended to help guide practitioners in the management of this commonly encountered and potentially serious condition.
Joel L, Bass, David, Gozal
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Oxygen therapy and oxygen toxicity

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1983
When oxygen therapy is warranted, the minimum effective dose generally should be given. Hypoxemic patients who have normal baseline ABG may be treated initially with an intermediate to high FiO2 in the range of 35% to 100%, depending on the severity of the respiratory distress. The majority of patients with exacerbations of COPD who are not in extremis
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Outpatient Oxygen Therapy

Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 1982
Patients with polycythemia, pulmonary hypertension, or cor pulmonale are most likely to benefit from home oxygen therapy; in others, exercise tolerance can be improved and neuropsychologic effects of hypoxemia relieved. Indications for home therapy, methods of delivering outpatient oxygen, economic considerations, and possible complications are ...
F, Flasterstein, R A, Klocke
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Oxygen therapy in pediatrics

Sahel Medical Journal, 2000
Oxygen therapy is the most important aspect of supportive care in the management of a critically ill child. Knowledge of the physiology of oxygenation is a key to the proper oxygen therapy. High flow systems are more dependable devices for oxygenation and their use needs to be stressed. Patients on oxygen need close monitoring.
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HOME OXYGEN THERAPY

Clinics in Chest Medicine, 1996
Home oxygen therapy has well-established benefits for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and resting hypoxemia. The indications for therapy have been clearly defined in the United States by the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), and these guidelines have been accepted by most third-party payers.
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Chronic Oxygen Therapy

Medical Clinics of North America, 1977
Chronic low flow oxygen is useful therapy for patients with chronic obstructive lung disease who are crippled by hypoxemia despite optimal programs of usual respiratory care. Patients should be considered for chronic oxygen therapy who have (a) a resting Pao2 less than 55 mm Hg while breathing room air; or (b) profound tissue hypoxemia measured by ...
M R, Flick, A J, Block
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OXYGEN THERAPY IN THE NEWBORN

The Lancet, 1968
Abstract The only satisfactory method of managing oxygen therapy for respiratory-distress syndrome (R.D.S.) is to measure the P a O 2 . 370 babies have had serial arterial blood-gas tensions measured: 203 of them had R.D.S. The mortality for R.D.S.
N R, Roberton   +3 more
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