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Improving Hospital Oxygen Systems for COVID-19 in Low-Resource Settings: Lessons From the Field.
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- Design and maintenance of medical oxygen concentrators in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review.BMC health services research · 2025Pooled it
- Barriers to COVID-19 Health Products in Low-and Middle-Income Countries During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Rapid Systematic Review and Evidence Synthesis.Frontiers in public health · 2022Pooled it
- Avoiding Routine Oxygen Therapy in Patients With Myocardial Infarction Saves Significant Expenditure for the Health Care System-Insights From the Randomized DETO2X-AMI Trial.Frontiers in public health · 2021Trial
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- Navigating oxygen management challenges amidst COVID-19 pandemic and beyond in India: a modified Total Interpretive Structural Modeling (m-TISM) approach.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Challenges in the medical oxygen ecosystem of Peru: A political economy analysis.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Pulse oximetry in pediatric care: Balancing advantages and limitations.World journal of clinical pediatrics · 2024Article
- Improving effective coverage of medical-oxygen services for neonates and children in health facilities in Uganda: a before-after intervention study.The Lancet. Global health · 2024Article
- Implementing an ICU registry in Ethiopia-Implications for critical care quality improvement.Journal of critical care · 2024Article
- General ward nurses detection and response to clinical deterioration in three hospitals at the Kenyan coast: a convergent parallel mixed methods study.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Strategies for Oxygen Ecosystems in Middle-Income Countries: A Review and Case Study from Lebanon.Emergency medicine international · 2024Review
- Dynamic risk assessment of hospital oxygen supply system by HAZOP and intuitionistic fuzzy.PloS one · 2023Article
- Medical Oxygen as a Life-Saving Medicine: A rapid review of the oxygen landscape and innovative efforts in the World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean Region in Response to COVID-19 and Beyond.Medical research archives · 2023Article
- A Comprehensive Approach to Medical Oxygen Ecosystem Building: An Implementation Case Study in Kenya, Rwanda, and Ethiopia.Global health, science and practice · 2022Article
- Hypoxaemia prevalence and management among children and adults presenting to primary care facilities in Uganda: A prospective cohort study.PLOS global public health · 2022Article
- Implementation of a COVID-19 screening tool in a southern Nigerian tertiary health facility.PLOS global public health · 2022Article
- Cutting Oxygen Production-Related Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Improved Compression Heat Management in a Cryogenic Air Separation Unit.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Measuring oxygen access: lessons from health facility assessments in Lagos, Nigeria.BMJ global health · 2021Article
- Developing useful early warning and prognostic scores for COVID-19.Postgraduate medical journal · 2021Article
- Community distribution of oxygen: a unique COVID-19 intervention.Tropical medicine and health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Oxygen therapy is an essential medicine and core component of effective hospital systems. However, many hospitals in low- and middle-income countries lack reliable oxygen access-a deficiency highlighted and exacerbated by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Oxygen access can be challenged by equipment that is low quality and poorly maintained, lack of clinical and technical training and protocols, and deficiencies in local infrastructure and policy environment. We share learnings from 2 decades of oxygen systems work with hospitals in Africa and the Asia-Pacific regions, highlighting practical actions that hospitals can take to immediately expand oxygen access. These include strategies to: (1) improve pulse oximetry and oxygen use, (2) support biomedical engineers to optimize existing oxygen supplies, and (3) expand on existing oxygen systems with robust equipment and smart design. We make all our resources freely available for use and local adaptation.
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