It allows patients with respiratory distress to maintain adequate oxygenation and carbon dioxide elimination, thereby improving oxygenation and reducing the incidence of hypoxemia. In patients with ...

Hypoxemic respiratory failure, or hypoxemia, occurs when you do not have enough oxygen in your blood. Hypercapnic respiratory failure, or hypercapnia, happens when there is too much carbon dioxide ...

Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Small Animal Clinic, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany Introduction: Hypoxemia is a common complication during bronchoscopy and ...

The variability in the definition of hyperoxaemia has remained a consistent limitation in previous studies; here, we will include studies which use partial pressure of oxygen (PaO2) as measure of ...

Clubbing usually happens because of long-term low levels of oxygen in the blood, known as hypoxemia. However, clubbed nails are not always cause for alarm, especially if nail clubbing runs in your ...

Background Supplemental oxygen is the commonest ‘drug’ used in the NICU; goals of therapy is to maintain normoxia whilst minimising hyperoxemia and hypoxemia. Objectives To determine the percentage of ...