Supplemental oxygen therapy in patients with suspected or confirmed myocardial infarction and normal blood oxygen saturation levels is not associated with any clinical benefit, a new meta-analysis ...

Q: What is “pulse ox”? My sister keeps telling our mom and dad (they’re 74 and 77) that they should be keeping keep track of it, especially right now. She hasn’t been too good at explaining why, or ...

If someone’s blood oxygen level falls below 60 mm Hg, there may not be enough oxygen reaching the body’s vital organs. This can lead to symptoms such as shortness of breath and dizziness. This article ...

Vital signs, those fluorescent green numbers that beep, ding, and dash across black screens on the monitors in hospital rooms, have become a new source of angst during the coronavirus pandemic. One of ...

ASPEN – It’s normal for infants born at higher altitudes to have lower oxygen levels in their bloodstreams than do newborns born at sea level, or even in Denver, according to the results of a research ...

PARIS — In patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS), there was no difference in overall 30-day mortality between a high- and low-usage oxygen protocol in a new study involving the whole ...

Optimising home oxygen delivery in infants has important logistical and safety implications. This can be aided by having a suitable reference range of normal values for arterial oxygen saturation ...

PARIS, France—Another study testing the use of supplemental high-flow oxygen therapy in all patients with suspected or confirmed acute coronary syndrome has failed to demonstrate a reduction in the ...

In the steamy days of late summer, when large men in pads battered one another on the football field, some tried to speed their recovery on the sidelines by breathing pure oxygen. Philadelphia Eagles ...