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August 20, 2015Anesthesia & Analgesia362 citationsOpen Access

Postoperative Hypoxemia Is Common and Persistent

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ZSZhuo SunDSDaniel I. SesslerJDJarrod E. Dalton

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P
Population
Hospitalized patients recovering from noncardiac surgery
O
Outcome
Severity and duration of postoperative hypoxemia

Medical records significantly underestimate the severity and duration of postoperative hypoxemia in patients recovering from noncardiac surgery.

Abstract

Hypoxemia was common and prolonged in hospitalized patients recovering from noncardiac surgery. The SpO2 values recorded in medical records seriously underestimated the severity of postoperative hypoxemia.

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Sun et al. (2015) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d90892bfc0898f4bd18065https://doi.org/10.1213/ane.0000000000000836
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