Oxygen therapy in acute hypoxemic respiratory failure: guidelines from the SRLF-SFMU consensus conference.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Although largely used, the place of oxygen therapy and its devices in patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure (ARF) deserves to be clarified. The French Intensive Care Society (Société de Réanimation de Langue Française, SRLF) and the French Emergency Medicine Society (Société Française de Médecine d'Urgence, SFMU) organized a consensus conference on oxygen therapy in ARF (excluding acute cardiogenic pulmonary oedema and hypercapnic exacerbation of chronic obstructive diseases) in December 2023.

Methods

A committee without any conflict of interest (CoI) with the subject defined 7 generic questions and drew up a list of sub questions according to the population, intervention, comparison and outcomes (PICO) model. An independent work group reviewed the l

SUBMITTER: Helms J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11377397 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature