[Prevention of respiratory risks].
A need for oxygen is determined by the base pathology a patient suffers which produces immobilization, due to being bedridden and due to the problems which began due to an organic insufficiency associated with muscular weakness, a failure in the respiratory system, insufficient sputum, and cardiovascular alterations. This article deals with those alterations which cause a need to provide oxygen to a patient and its prevention in bedridden patients.
Gutiérrez Valverde
L
L
Hospital de Sagunto.
Rosero Arenas
E
E
Rodríguez Rajadell
M P
MP
Hernández Casanova
I
I
García García
M A
MA
D006801:Humans; D007103:Immobilization; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012307:Risk Factors; D013147:Spirometry / Q000379:methods*