Oxygen supply at Southend Hospital ‘reaches critical situation’

Oxygen supply at Southend Hospital ‘reaches critical situation’ as doctors face intense strain amid rising numbers of coronavirus patients Bosses at Southend Hospital in Essex say there is ‘high demand for oxygen’  They ‘are working to manage this’ amid rising numbers of Covid-19 patients Patients’ oxygen saturation levels ‘should be kept within 88-92% target range’ … Read more

Giving pregnant women oxygen during childbirth ‘often unnecessary’

Giving pregnant women extra oxygen during labour and delivery is ‘often unnecessary’, study suggests US researchers compared 16 studies assessing benefit of oxygen in childbirth  Found there is no clear or significant benefit to providing extra oxygen   Researchers say being more judicious with oxygen will reduce childbirth costs  By Joe Pinkstone For Mailonline Published: 16:13 GMT, 4 January … Read more

Giving pregnant women oxygen during labour and delivery is ‘often unnecessary’

Giving pregnant women extra oxygen during labour and delivery is ‘often unnecessary’, study suggests US researchers compared 16 studies assessing benefit of oxygen in childbirth  Found there is no clear or significant benefit to providing extra oxygen   Researchers say being more judicious with oxygen will reduce childbirth costs  By Joe Pinkstone For Mailonline Published: 16:13 GMT, 4 January … Read more

Five hospitals declare ‘internal disaster’ after facing shortage of oxygen to treat patients 

Southern California hospitals are being inundated with coronavirus patients and do not have enough oxygen to treat those who are the most critically ill. The supply issue led to at least five Los Angeles County hospitals declaring an ‘internal disaster’ on Sunday, which included turning away all incoming ambulances with patients. The Los Angeles County … Read more

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos’ true crime show Exhumed set for a January premiere on Oxygen

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos’ new true crime TV series Exhumed is set for a January premiere on Oxygen By Sarah Abraham For Dailymail.com Published: 21:45 GMT, 4 December 2020 | Updated: 22:12 GMT, 4 December 2020 Kelly Ripa and husband Mark Consuelos have a new true crime series, Exhumed, which has been set for … Read more

Australian scientists link poor hand grip and low blood oxygen

Weak handshake may be a sign of long-term health problems and premature ageing in men due to lower levels of oxygen in their blood, study suggests Scientists find a link between poor grip and hypoxemia – low oxygen in the blood Hypoxemia can lead to oxygen-starved body tissues and lead to organ failure  A simple test measuring … Read more

New technology will allow astronauts to transform salt water on Mars into oxygen and fuel

New technology will allow astronauts to transform salt water on Mars into oxygen and fuel when they land on the Red Planet in 2033 The system is designed with  two sides – one splits the water to form a hydroxyl ion and the other splits it again to produce oxygen It produces 25 times more oxygen … Read more

Can pure oxygen reverse effects of ageing?

Can pure oxygen reverse effects of ageing? People placed in pressurised chambers gain significant benefits from breathing clean air, research shows Breathing pure oxygen may help to reverse the ageing process, scientists claim Found those put in pressurised oxygen chambers gained significant benefits Sessions lasted 90 minutes each and took place for five days a … Read more

Professional athletes can take in oxygen TWICE as fast as the regular person

Professional runners with the ability to run a marathon in under two hours take in oxygen twice as fast as a regular person of the same age, a new study revealed. University of Exeter researchers analysed the rate of oxygen uptake among elite athletes as part of the sub-two-minute marathon Breaking2 project run by Nike.  … Read more

Grandmother died in ‘one-in-ten-million’ freak accident when oxygen tank exploded, inquest hears

A grandmother died in a ‘one-in-ten-million’ freak accident when an oxygen tank being used to treat her for suspected coronavirus exploded ‘like a Roman Candle firework’, an inquest has heard. Paramedics were administering oxygen treatment to Lynn Hadley at her home in Walsall, West Midlands, when sparks – described as like being from a ‘humongous … Read more