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Episode: Conservative Oxygen Therapy in Mechanically Ventilated Critically Ill Adult Patients
Description: When it comes to oxygen therapy for critically ill, ventilated patients, more isnāt always betterābut is less the answer? The UK-ROX trial set out to find out, tracking over 16,000 ICU patients across 97 hospitals to test if targeting lower oxygen saturation (SpOā ~90%) could improve survival rates.
Spoiler alert: it didnāt.
In this episode, we unpack why conservative oxygen therapy didnāt significantly impact 90-day mortalityāand what that means for frontline ICU care today. With no meaningful differences in mortality, ICU stays, or days free from organ support, the results suggest that āusual careā oxygen s...