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WHO Needs High FIO2?
Author(s) -
Ozan Akça,
Lorenzo Ball,
F. J. Belda,
Péter Bíró,
Andrea Cortegiani,
Arieh Eden,
Carlos Ferrando,
Luciano Gattii,
Zeev Goldik,
Cesare Gregoretti,
Thomas Hachenberg,
Göran Hedenstierna,
Harriet W. Hopf,
Thomas K. Hunt,
Paolo Pelosi,
Motaz Qadan,
Daniel I. Sessler,
Marina Soro,
Mert Şentürk
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
türk anestezi ve reanimasyon dergisi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2149-0937
DOI - 10.5152/tjar.2017.250701
Subject(s) - medicine , disease control , surgical site infection , surgical procedures , intensive care medicine , general surgery , surgery , environmental health
World Health Organization and the United States Center for Disease Control have recently recommended the use of 0.8 FIO 2 in all adult surgical patients undergoing general anaesthesia, to prevent surgical site infections. This recommendation has arisen several discussions: As a matter of fact, there are numerous studies with different results about the effect of FIO 2 on surgical site infection. Moreover, the clinical effects of FIO 2 are not limited to infection control. We asked some prominent authors about their comments regarding the recent recommendations.

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