Critical Care Pilot Study: Beware of Oxygen Toxicity
Critical care physicians often fight to keep up oxygen levels in their patients with respiratory failure and ARDS to to support an energy metabolism that can sustain life. In neonates, impressive studies have long ago shown that oxygen should never be given in excess of what is needed to sufficiently load hemoglobin (in order to prevent, e.g. retinopathy). In the past decade, researchers [...]