Restricting inspired oxygen worsens this hypoxia and is detrimental to the patient.
She had well established adult respiratory distress syndrome, requiring artificial ventilation with 90% fractional inspired oxygen.
Management involved monitoring of oxygen at home, additional inspired oxygen, anticonvulsant treatment, or child protection procedures.
Patients discharged on additional inspired oxygen received this by nasal cannulas (de Vilbiss).
Additional inspired oxygen was discontinued only after an overnight recording performed 6-8 weeks after the last event had confirmed normal baseline and stable oxygenation.
Twenty nine of these 40 patients (15 with baseline hypoxaemia and 14 with recurrent hypoxaemic events) received continuous additional inspired oxygen.
This warns if the fraction of inspired oxygen drops lower than minimum alarm setting and allows the anaesthetist to take immediate remedial action.
The oxygenation index is a calculation used in intensive care medicine to measure the fraction of inspired oxygen (FiO2) and its usage within the body.
Ventilation-induced changes in lung structure in the very immature lung of fetal sheep: role of inspired oxygen.
Fraction of inspired oxygen (FiO) is the fraction or percentage of oxygen in the space being measured.