Reservoir Cannulas for Pediatric Oxygen Therapy: A Proof-of-Concept Study

• Main Authors: Grace Wu (Author), Alec Wollen (Author), Robert M. DiBlasi (Author), Stephen Himley (Author), Eugene Saxon (Author), Glenn Austin (Author), Jaclyn Delarosa (Author), Rasa Izadnegahdar (Author), Amy Sarah Ginsburg (Author), Darin Zehrung (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Hypoxemia is a complication of pneumonia-the leading infectious cause of death in children worldwide. Treatment generally requires oxygen-enriched air, but access in low-resource settings is expensive and unreliable. We explored use of reservoir cannulas (RCs), which yield oxygen savings in adults b...