Domiciliary oxygen for children.
Domiciliary oxygen is used increasingly in pediatric practice, and the largest patient group to receive it is ex-premature babies with chronic neonatal lung disease. Because of a scarcity of good evidence to inform clinicians, there is a lack of consensus over many issues, even those as fundamental as the optimum target oxygen saturation. Nevertheless, many children benefit from receiving supplemental oxygen at home, particularly because it helps to keep them out of the hospital.
Balfour-Lynn
Ian M
IM
Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK. i.balfourlynn@ic.ac.uk
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