Harrowing footage taken in a makeshift intensive-care unit in northern Italy shows critical coronavirus patients with plastic, bubble-shaped containers over their heads. The video was broadcast ...
Nothing captivates patient (or physician) imagination quite like oxygen. Its power and necessity are considered self-evident. Also a given is the need for saturation to be 90% or above. It’s a nice ...
For the 1.5 million Americans living with chronic lung and heart disease and other respiratory conditions, supplemental oxygen is not a luxury or something that would be nice to have - it is a literal ...
Reducing supplementary oxygen given to intensive care patients does not deliver any clear and obvious health benefits or harm their chances of survival, according to new research. Each year, around ...
As a rule, caregivers in the United States and most of the developed world take oxygen availability for granted. Oxygen orders are placed, and the patient receives the requested amount. However, as ...
PARIS, France—Another study testing the use of supplemental high-flow oxygen therapy in all patients with suspected or confirmed acute coronary syndrome has failed to demonstrate a reduction in the ...
INDIANAPOLIS – An Indiana nurse accused of removing a COVID-19 patient's oxygen at a poorly staffed nursing home has pleaded guilty to a felony, but will receive no jail time. Connie Sneed, 54, of New ...
We may be a step closer to being able to breathe through our butts. A new human clinical trial has shown that it's safe, at least, to deliver oxygen rectally.
Supplemental oxygen in patients with confirmed myocardial infarction has no clinical benefit irrespective of oxygen saturation levels at baseline, a new analysis of the Determination of the Role of ...