Oxygen Therapy Part 1 - History, Physiology, and Evaluation.

Wemple, Matthew L; Swenson, Kai E; Swenson, Erik R · NEJM Evid · 2023

review · Level V

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Abstract

History, Physiology, and Evaluation of Oxygen TherapyOxygen is standard therapy for acute cardiopulmonary diseases, and long-term oxygen therapy is common in the outpatient setting. In part I of a two-part review, Wemple and colleagues discuss the physiology of tissue hypoxia, mechanisms of hypoxemia, and its clinical assessment.

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