Intensive Care Clinicians’ Attitudes and Self-Reported Practice of Conservative Oxygen Therapy
Archives of Critical Care Medicine,
Vol. 1 No. 3 (2015),
27 October 2023
Abstract
Background: Conservative oxygen therapy (COT) targets a SpO2 of 90 - 92% using the lowest possible FiO2 for mechanically venti[1]lated (MV) adult patients. Conservative oxygen therapy aims to maintain adequate oxygenation while avoiding the harmful effects of hyperoxaemia. However, a lower SpO2 target during MV is recognised as challenging in current clinical norms.
Objectives: We sought to describe intensive care clinicians’ opinion and self-reported practice of conservative oxygen therapy.
Methods: The research tool was a multi-choice questionnaire of intensive care clinicians working at 10 affiliated metropolitan ter[1]tiary hospitals from January-April, 2014.
Results: Four hundred and twelve (84%) staffmembers responded to the survey. Of these, 91% (375) were intensive care nurses and 9% (37) were medical doctors. A majority of respondents (86%, 356/412) considered oxygen-related lung injury as “Yes, a major concern”. Most respondents, 85% (351/412), felt COT was easy to perform and a few respondents, 6% (23/412), considered performing COT to be stressful. More than 90% of the respondents reported not performing more arterial blood gases to monitor PaO2 during COT and essentially all (98%) indicated a desire to perform COT. Free text comments indicated COT as a challenge to current practice and expressed a strong desire to avoid inadvertent hypoxaemia.
Conclusions: Intensive care clinicians varied in their opinion and self-reported practice of conservative oxygen therapy and were genuinely concerned about unintended physiological consequences related to targeting low SpO2 values. We recommend conser[1]vative oxygen therapy to be implemented cautiously in conjunction with further evaluation of its impact on outcomes for patients and the perceptions of clinicians.
- Intensive Care Unit
- Hyperoxaemia
- Hypoxemia
- Conservative Oxygen Therapy
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