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01-01-2020 | Septicemia | Editorial
Trials on oxygen supplementation in sepsis: better late than never
Authors:
Anders Perner, Audrey De Jong, Manu Shankar-Hari
Published in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Issue 1/2020
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Excerpt
Oxygen supplementation is one of the most frequently used interventions in critically ill patients. In addition, most ICU patients with sepsis receive oxygen supplementation irrespective of the presence or absence of hypoxia [
1]. In the 2016 iteration of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) guideline [
2], there was no guidance on the use of supplementary oxygen or on oxygenation targets for these patients, alongside recommendations for further research [
3]. …