The national early warning score gives misleading scores for oxygen saturation in patients at risk of hypercapnia

Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 695-696

  O'Driscoll, Bronan ^a   Grant, Kirstie ^b   Green, Darren ^c   Edeghere, Simon ^a   Bakerly, Nawar Diar ^a   Murphy, Peter ^a   Edwards, Val ^a   Turkington, Peter M ^a  

^a SALFORD ROYAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c Centre for Health Economics   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD GAS PARAMETERS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; LETTER; LUNG DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NATIONAL EARLY WARNING SCORE; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN BREATHING; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RISK FACTOR; BLOOD; GREAT BRITAIN; REFERENCE VALUE; STANDARDS;

OXYGEN;

GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; HYPERCAPNIA; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 84914673718     PISSN: 14702118     EISSN: 14734893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.14-6-695     Document Type: Letter

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