Does routine oxygen supplementation in patients with acute stroke improve outcome?

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 345, Issue 7886, 2012, Pages

  Pountain, S J ^a   Roffe, C ^a,b  

^a Staffordshire   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; PLACEBO;

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FACE MASK; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SHORT SURVEY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNCERTAINTY;

ANOXIA; HUMANS; OXYGEN; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84870704892     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e6976     Document Type: Short Survey

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