Search Tag: hypoxaemia

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Redefining-acute-respiratory-distress-syndrome

2023 08 Nov

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) has been known for over a century but was officially described in 1967. Despite revisions in its definition, there's ongoing debate about whether ARDS is a distinct medical condition. The current diagnostic criteria for ARDS are challenging to apply in clinical practice, so standardising the assessment of...Read more

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Oxygen-therapy

2021 24 Jun

S upplemental oxygen is an essential component of intensive care and is a commonly used therapy worldwide. The primary goal of oxygen therapy is to prevent hypoxaemia. Since oxygen is usually widely available (except in special circumstances such as during the COVID-19 pandemic) and is relatively inexpensive, it is frequently used in patients with...Read more

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Oxygen-therapy-in-intensive-care-medicine

2021 24 Jun

An overview of current recommendations for oxygen administration in different patient populations and a discussion on optimal oxygen target values. O xygen is the most commonly used substance in hospitals today. After its discovery around 1771 by the German-Swedish pharmacist Carl Wilhelm Scheele and the English chemist Joseph Priestley, oxygen...Read more

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Apnoeic-oxygenation-for-intubation-where-is-the-evidence

2021 24 Jun

Apnoeic oxygenation can be used in critically ill patients, without replacing preoxygenation. Introduction Hypoxaemia is one of the most common complications during tracheal intubation of critically ill patients (Jaber et al. 2006; Russotto et al. 2021) with an incidence of severe hypoxaemia reaching up to 50% (De Jong et al. 2013; Jaber et...Read more

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Coronavirus-and-the-potential-role-of-ecmo

2020 26 Feb

The relatively new coronavirus has already infected thousands of patients in China and is now rapidly spreading globally. Many countries have already reported cases of coronavirus and the WHO has declared coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) a public health emergency and has released preliminary guidelines on management of patients.  Most reports...Read more

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Isicem19-prof-jean-pierre-frat-presents-results-of-the-florali-2-trial

2019 21 Mar

Professor Jean-Pierre Frat presented the results of the FLORALI-2 trial at the 39th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine . The study, ' Non-invasive ventilation versus high-flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy with apnoeic oxygenation for preoxygenation before intubation of patients with acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure:...Read more

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Lives-2017-lack-of-severe-hypoxaemia-most-common-reason-not-to-prone

2017 05 Oct

Despite proven benefits of proning patients with ARDS ( Guérin et al. 2013 ), patients with ARDS are seldom put in prone position. A one-day prevalence study of prone positioning in ARDS patients, organised by the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) Acute Respiratory Failure Section, found low rates of proning, similar to those...Read more

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Mechanical-ventilation-which-patients-benefit-from-high-peep

2017 21 Mar

Among patients with hypoxaemia after cardiac surgery, the use of an intensive alveolar recruitment strategy compared with a moderate recruitment strategy resulted in less severe pulmonary complications during the hospital stay, according to a randomised clinical trial of postoperative ventilation published in JAMA. See Also : Towards Safer Ventilation...Read more