Reportedly, the low blood oxygen is very common in sick children than earlier believed, and strongly surges children’s perils of death, a research conducted in Australia found. Dr. Hamish Graham—Pediatrician at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute—led the global research project and its findings were published in EClinicalMedicine. Dr. Graham stated he expected the findings will cheer health care workers and lawmakers in other low-income and middle-income nations, particularly in Africa, to surge the usage of oxygen measuring tools and oxygen treatment. Dr. Graham along with colleagues in Nigeria recorded the blood oxygen levels of over 23,000 kids admitted to 12 medium-sized hospitals.
Dr. Graham stated, “Your blood oxygen level is the total of oxygen transported by RBCs (red blood cells) from the lungs to remaining body and low blood oxygen impairs cells and can cause death. Our study discovered that 1 in 4 newborns and 1 in 10 kids in the hospital had low blood oxygen, and these kids were eight folds more inclined to report casualty compared to those having normal blood oxygen.” Dr. Graham’s research demonstrated that it is normal not only in pneumonia but also in several other conditions. He added, “Low blood oxygen is principally common in newborn infants, in particular, those born premature or with very complications.”
On a related note, of late a study showed that oxygen is neither favorable nor harmful in patients having ACS (acute coronary syndrome). A moderate oxygen strategy has the same impact on 30-Day casualty as a conventional protocol in patients with ACS, as per to late-breaking findings from the NZOTACS trial submitted at ESC Congress 2019 in cooperation with the World Congress of Cardiology. The moderate oxygen strategy appeared useful in the subset of patients with STEMI (ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction).