Oxygen alert cards and controlled oxygen: Preventing emergency admissions at risk of hypercapnic acidosis receiving high inspired oxygen concentrations in ambulances and A&E departments

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 636-638

  Gooptu, B ^a   Ward, L ^a   Ansari, S O ^a   Eraut, C D ^a   Law, D ^b   Davison, A G ^a  

^a Southend Associated University Healthcare Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b EAST OF ENGLAND AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

AMBULANCE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; MASK; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; OXYGENATION; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESUSCITATION;

ACIDOSIS, RESPIRATORY; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERCAPNIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; PATIENT READMISSION; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 33748033013     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2005.029991     Document Type: Article

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