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Oxygen Therapy
Decision Making and Delivery Devices
| Supervisor: |
Dr Fiona Thomson |
| Created: |
December 2022 |
| Reviewed: |
December 2022 |
| Next Review: |
December 2025 |
Learning Objectives
- Clarify the indications for supplemental oxygen therapy in hospital adult patients
- Revise the anatomy, physiology and biochemistry of respiration and gas exchange in health as previously encountered in Year 1 of the MBChB course
- Examine the effects of hypoxia on the human body in terms of pathophysiology, clinical signs and symptoms
- Distinguish which patients are at risk of hypercapnic respiratory failure and justify a target saturation range to which oxygen therapy should be tailored
- Select appropriate oxygen delivery devices and propose suitable target oxygen saturation ranges
- Understand safe oxygen prescribing and effective communication within a multi-professional clinical team
