Title: Improving Pneumonia Management and Pulse Oximetry - Stop Pneumonia / Every Breath Counts
Headings: Improving Pneumonia Management and Pulse Oximetry
Improving Pneumonia Management and Pulse Oximetry
Article posted on November 29, 2016.
Successful Use of Pulse Oximetry Can Lead to Providing Lifesaving Therapies, Like Oxygen
Fast Facts
2016 Pneumonia and Diarrhea Progress Report
Improving Pneumonia Management and Pulse Oximetry
Interview with Dr. Kim Mulholland, London, UK and Melbourne, AU
Q: When it comes to pneumonia management, where is the gap?
Q: How has the availability and quality of pulse oximetry changed over time?
Q: How can appropriate use of pulse oximeters be improved?
Q: How can these lessons learned be applied to other pneumonia strategies?
Innovations: Pulse Oximetry and Oxygen Therapy
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Content: In 2016, he published the first edition of the textbook, Pneumonia in Children: Epidemiology, Prevention and Treatment. Innovations: Pulse Oximetry and Oxygen Therapy
Children die from pneumonia commonly because their lungs are unable to perform their main job— delivering enough oxygen to the other organs of their body. Without a way to test children for the amount of oxygen in their blood, health care workers do not know which children need treatment with oxygen and, even if they did, oxygen is often not available. Pulse oximeters are noninvasive devices that a trained health worker uses to measure the oxygen level in the blood. The measurements are made without drawing blood from the child. Instead a probe is placed on a child’s finger or toe, or in some small babies on the ear lobe. Normal pulse oximeter levels should be 96% or higher. A reading below 90% indicates hypoxemia—a condition in which there is a deficiency of oxygen in the blood associated with severe pneumonia.