Healthcare professionals have developed several methods for monitoring people's overall health and wellbeing during a regular checkup. Many of these measure substance concentrations or saturations in ...

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 ...

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 ...

July 23, 2023 at 0:00pm BST In one trial of the new treatment, known as acute intermittent hypoxia, patients will be given alternate cycles of breathing normal air followed by air with half normal ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Doctors say one of the best ways to monitor patients with COVID-19 is by tracking their blood oxygen levels, ...

ASPEN – It’s normal for infants born at higher altitudes to have lower oxygen levels in their bloodstreams than do newborns born at sea level, or even in Denver, according to the results of a research ...

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 ...

International guidelines for newborn resuscitation recommend the use of 100% oxygen. However, high concentrations of oxygen after asphyxiation activate reactive oxygen species that may contribute to a ...