Oxygen saturations of medical inpatients in a Malawian hospital: cross-sectional study of oxygen supply and demand

Oxygen is a World Health Organisation listed essential drug yet provision of oxygen in developing countries often fails to meet demand. The aim of this study was to evaluate the need for supplementary oxygen against oxygen delivery capacity at a large teaching hospital in Malawi. A cross-sectional s...

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Autores principales: Evans, Hywel-Gethin Tudur, Mahmood, Nadia, Fullerton, Duncan G., Rylance, Jamie, Gonani, Andrew, Gordon, Stephen B., Mortimer, Kevin, Allain, Theresa J.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6707393/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31463177
http://dx.doi.org/10.15172/pneu.2012.1/208
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author Evans, Hywel-Gethin Tudur
Mahmood, Nadia
Fullerton, Duncan G.
Rylance, Jamie
Gonani, Andrew
Gordon, Stephen B.
Mortimer, Kevin
Allain, Theresa J.
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Mahmood, Nadia
Fullerton, Duncan G.
Rylance, Jamie
Gonani, Andrew
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description Oxygen is a World Health Organisation listed essential drug yet provision of oxygen in developing countries often fails to meet demand. The aim of this study was to evaluate the need for supplementary oxygen against oxygen delivery capacity at a large teaching hospital in Malawi. A cross-sectional study of all adult medical inpatients and assessment of oxygen provision over a 24-hour period was conducted. 144 patients were included in the study, 14 of whom met local and international criteria for oxygen therapy (oxygen saturations of <90%). Four were receiving oxygen. Of the 8 oxygen concentrators available, only 4 were functional. In conclusion, we identified a need for oxygen that was greater than the supply.
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spelling pubmed-67073932019-08-28 Oxygen saturations of medical inpatients in a Malawian hospital: cross-sectional study of oxygen supply and demand Evans, Hywel-Gethin Tudur Mahmood, Nadia Fullerton, Duncan G. Rylance, Jamie Gonani, Andrew Gordon, Stephen B. Mortimer, Kevin Allain, Theresa J. Pneumonia (Nathan) Brief Report Oxygen is a World Health Organisation listed essential drug yet provision of oxygen in developing countries often fails to meet demand. The aim of this study was to evaluate the need for supplementary oxygen against oxygen delivery capacity at a large teaching hospital in Malawi. A cross-sectional study of all adult medical inpatients and assessment of oxygen provision over a 24-hour period was conducted. 144 patients were included in the study, 14 of whom met local and international criteria for oxygen therapy (oxygen saturations of <90%). Four were receiving oxygen. Of the 8 oxygen concentrators available, only 4 were functional. In conclusion, we identified a need for oxygen that was greater than the supply. BioMed Central 2016-07-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6707393/ /pubmed/31463177 http://dx.doi.org/10.15172/pneu.2012.1/208 Text en © The Author(s) 2012 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provided a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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Evans, Hywel-Gethin Tudur
Mahmood, Nadia
Fullerton, Duncan G.
Rylance, Jamie
Gonani, Andrew
Gordon, Stephen B.
Mortimer, Kevin
Allain, Theresa J.
Oxygen saturations of medical inpatients in a Malawian hospital: cross-sectional study of oxygen supply and demand
title Oxygen saturations of medical inpatients in a Malawian hospital: cross-sectional study of oxygen supply and demand
title_full Oxygen saturations of medical inpatients in a Malawian hospital: cross-sectional study of oxygen supply and demand
title_fullStr Oxygen saturations of medical inpatients in a Malawian hospital: cross-sectional study of oxygen supply and demand
title_full_unstemmed Oxygen saturations of medical inpatients in a Malawian hospital: cross-sectional study of oxygen supply and demand
title_short Oxygen saturations of medical inpatients in a Malawian hospital: cross-sectional study of oxygen supply and demand
title_sort oxygen saturations of medical inpatients in a malawian hospital: cross-sectional study of oxygen supply and demand
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6707393/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31463177
http://dx.doi.org/10.15172/pneu.2012.1/208
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