Oxygen as an Essential Medicine: Under- and Over-Treatment of Hypoxemia in Low- and High-Income Nations

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2016, Pages e1015-e1016

  Sutherland, Tori ^a   Musafiri, Sanctus ^b   Twagirumugabe, Theogene ^b   Talmor, Daniel ^a   Riviello, Elisabeth D ^b,c  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA   (Rwanda)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; HIGH INCOME COUNTRY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPEROXIA; HYPOXEMIA; LETTER; LOW INCOME COUNTRY; MORTALITY; MORTALITY RATE; OXIMETER; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; HYPOXIA;

HUMANS; HYPOXIA; OXYGEN;

EID: 84988423981     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000001912     Document Type: Letter

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