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1048 Incidence of hyperoxia in traumatically injured patients receiving pre-hospital emergency anaesthesia: a 5-year retrospective analysis

In the prehospital setting where ABGA is not readily available, target SpO2 of 94–98% as recommended in BTS Guidelines should guide FiO2 titration to reduce risk of tissue hyperoxia. Predeparture ...
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P261 Quantifying oxygen requirement in early warning scores improves recognition of deterioration compared to the national early warning score 2 (NEWS2) in patients on oxygen

1 Critical Care Research Group, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 2 Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology ...
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When to treat with surfactant?

Correspondence to Dr David G Sweet, Neonatal Unit, Royal Maternity Hospital, Belfast, Belfast, UK; david.sweet{at}belfasttrust.hscni.net What should neonatologists do now, while acknowledging that we ...
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A randomised trial of domiciliary, ambulatory oxygen in patients with COPD and dyspnoea but without resting hypoxaemia

1 Institute for Breathing and Sleep, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia 2 Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia 3 The Northern ...
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Thresholds for surfactant use in preterm neonates: a network meta-analysis

Objective To perform a network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials of different surfactant treatment strategies for respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) to assess if a certain fraction of ...
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Supplemental oxygen for pulmonary embolism (SO-PE): study protocol for a mechanistic, randomised, blinded, cross-over study

Background Acute pulmonary embolism (PE) mortality is linked to abrupt rises in pulmonary artery (PA) pressure due to mechanical obstruction and pulmonary vasoconstriction, leading to right ...