Predicting the need for supplemental oxygen during airline flight in patients with chronic pulmonary disease: A comparison of predictive equations and altitude simulation

Canadian Respiratory Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 119-124

  Bradi, Ana C ^a   Faughnan, Marie E ^b   Stanbrook, Matthew B ^a   Deschenes Leek, Eva ^b   Chapman, Kenneth R ^a  

^a TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Altitude; COPD; Flight; Hypoxemia; Hypoxia altitude simulation test; Normobaric challenge; Recommendations

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; MALE; OXYGEN THERAPY; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AGED; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; EVALUATION STUDY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRAVEL; VERY ELDERLY;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXYGEN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAVEL;

EID: 70350164861     PISSN: 11982241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2009/371901     Document Type: Article

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