This week we discuss the OXYGEN-ICU trial exploring the effect of excess oxygen on ICU mortality.

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The Bottom Line: Normal Oxygen Versus Hyperoxia in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) (OXYGEN-ICU)

ScanCrit: Avoid the Oxygen Reflex

REBEL EM: July 2015 REBEL Cast

References

Giradis M et al. Effect of Conservative vs Conventional Oxygen Therapy on Mortality Among Patients in an Intensive Care Unit: The Oxygen-ICU Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 316(15):1583-1589. 2016. PMID: 27706466

Meyhoff CS et al. PROXI Trial Group. Effect of high perioperative oxygen fraction on surgical site infection and pulmonary complications after abdominal surgery: the PROXI randomized clinical trial. JAMA. 2009; 302(14):1543-1550. PMID: 19826023

Stub D et al. AVOID Investigators. Air versus oxygen in ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction. Circulation. 2015;131(24):2143-2150. PMID: 26002889