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 ...

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 ...

Blood oxygen levels refer to the amount of oxygen circulating in the blood. Normal blood oxygen levels fall between 75 and 100 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) on arterial blood gas (ABG) test results.

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 ...

Results of the Determination of the Role of Oxygen in Suspected Acute Myocardial Infarction (DETO2X-AMI) were presented here at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 2017 Congress and published ...

Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a disorder of developing retinal blood vessels in preterm infants. The purpose of this nested study was to investigate the effects of higher (91–95%) and lower ...

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 ...

Like thermometers, toilet paper, and face masks before them, pulse oximeters — your doctor likely clipped one on your finger during your last annual physical and you haven’t thought of it since — have ...