Effect of Conservative vs Conventional Oxygen Therapy on Mortality Among Patients in an Intensive Care Unit

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Acute hypoxemia frequently occurs in hospitalized patients and is generally counteracted by supplementation of oxygen in inspired gas. Although this strategy is consistently endorsed by guidelines for the management of critically ill patients, explicit target values for Pao2 or arterial oxyhemoglobin saturations (Sao2) are not provided.1-3