The use of high-flow nasal oxygen in COVID-19

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
² Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Galway University Hospitals, Galway, Ireland.

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C Lyons et al. Anaesthesia. 2020 Jul.

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. 2020 Jul;75(7):843-847.

doi: 10.1111/anae.15073. Epub 2020 Apr 20.

¹ Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
² Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Galway University Hospitals, Galway, Ireland.

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Keywords: COVID-19; aerosolisation; high-flow nasal oxygen; respiratory failure; tracheal intubation.

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