1 Department of Pulmonology and Lung Cancers, Wrocław Medical University, Wrocław, Poland 2 Department of Histology and Cytophysiology, Wrocław Medical University, Wrocław, Poland Introduction: ...

In the EXAKT study from the U.K., the home-use pulse oximeters assessed all gave higher oxygen saturation (SpO2) readings for patients with darker skin tones than for patients with lighter skin tones.

A total of 11,018 paired SpO2-SaO2 measurements were analysed. All five pulse oximeters returned higher SpO2 values for patients with darker skin tones than patients with lighter skin tones, at any ...

Correspondence to: L M Seccombe Department of Thoracic Medicine, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, Australia; seccombelemail.cs.nsw.gov.au Background: Commercial aircraft cabins provide a ...

The American Heart Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics provide these pediatric advanced life support guidelines focusing on resuscitation during cardiopulmonary resuscitation and ...

Background Hyper-oxygenation of cyanotic patients during the early phase of cardiopulmonary bypass can lead to significant myocardial damage. To mitigate this, the partial pressure of oxygen in ...

Correspondence to Dr Lorraine B Ware, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA; ...

Abstract: Objective: Current intrapartum fetal monitoring technology is unable to provide physicians with an objective metric of fetal well-being, leading to degraded patient outcomes and increased ...

There is no need to do any special preparation for this test. However, if you are on oxygen therapy, oxygen values must be constant for 20 minutes before the test. If you are taking medication to make ...

1 Newborn Research Centre, The Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2 Neonatal Research, The Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia This was a ...