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Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) in critically ill patients with cirrhosis

Cumulative survival (A) on admission (<30 vs. ≥30), ICU admission reason (B, admitted for acute respiratory failure vs. admitted for other reasons), and PaO2/FiO2 ratio (C, ≤100 mmHg vs. >100 mmHg) at ...
BMJ

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 ...
thorax.bmj

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 ...
thorax.bmj

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 ...
BMJ

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 ...