Low blood oxygen is more common in sick children than previously thought, and strongly increases children’s risk of death, Australian-led research has found.
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute paediatrician Dr Hamish Graham led the international research project, published in the Lancet’s EClinicalMedicine.
Dr Graham said he hoped the findings would encourage policy makers and health care workers in other low and middle income countries, especially in Africa, to increase the use of oxygen measuring tools and oxygen therapy.
