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This editorial highlights that high perioperative oxygen concentrations may have detrimental effects, and a low-oxygen strategy could be advantageous for pulmonary gas exchange in obese adults.
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This commentary emphasizes that routine use of high-concentration oxygen in the perioperative period may lack benefit for preventing infections or nausea, and could cause harm such as atelectasis or coronary vasoconstriction.
Hans Ulrich Rothen (2010) reported an editorial. This editorial highlights that high perioperative oxygen concentrations may have detrimental effects, and a low-oxygen strategy could be advantageous for pulmonary gas exchange in obese adults.
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