Oxygen is an element displayed by the symbol O, and atomic number 8. It is an essential element for human survival. Decreased oxygen levels may be treated with medical oxygen therapy. Treatment with oxygen serves to increase blood oxygen levels and also exerts a secondary effect of decreasing blood flow resistance in the diseased lung, leading to decreased cardiovascular workload in an attempt to oxygenate the lungs. Oxygen therapy is used to treat emphysema, pneumonia, some heart disorders (congestive heart failure), some disorders that cause increased pulmonary artery pressure, and any disease that impairs the body's ability to take up and use gaseous oxygen. Higher level of oxygen than ambient air (hyperoxia) can be introduced under normobaric or hyperbaric conditions.
Oxygen therapy in clinical settings is used across diverse specialties, including various types of anoxia, hypoxia or dyspnea and any other disease states and conditions that reduce the efficiency of gas exchange and oxygen consumption such as respiratory illnesses, trauma, poisonings and drug overdoses. Oxygen therapy tries to achieve hyperoxia to reduce the extent of hypoxia-induced tissue damage and malfunction.
Dept. of Anesthesia, HOC, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Department of Paediatrics, Copenhagen University Hospital; Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark
John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
SUS Lund, Lund, Sweden
SUS Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
Helsingborg Hospital, Helsingborg, Sweden
Terapia Intensiva Post-operatoria. Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Policlinico di Modena, Modena, Italy
Geisinger Wyoming Valley, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States
Massachussets General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Bakirkoy Women's and Children's Teaching Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States
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