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Oxygen Therapy for Doctors
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Course Details:
Audience: Doctors
Learning Objectives
- Why is there an oxygen guideline?
- Oximetry as the basis of the guideline
- Normal range of oximetry
- Effects of hypoxaemia – sudden onset and gradual onset
- Aims of oxygen treatment and its place in resuscitation
- Recommended target saturations – with rationale
- Oxygen Alert cards
- Prescribing oxygen
- Devices, including which device and flow rate to use for each patient
- Monitoring, weaning and discontinuation of oxygen therapy
Resource details
| Contributed by: | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust |
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| Licence: | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International More information on licences |
| Last updated: | 13 September 2024 |
| First contributed: | 24 April 2023 |
| Audience access level: | Full user |
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