Air travel and oxygen therapy in cardiopulmonary patients

H Gong - Chest, 1992 - journal.chestnet.org
… cardiopulmonary disorders who choose commercial air travel for business, pleasure… air
travel has been enhanced by several factors. For example, reliable clinical assessment of oxygen

Assessment of oxygen supplementation during air travel.

D Cramer, S Ward, D Geddes - Thorax, 1996 - thorax.bmj.com
… Utilising existing lung function equipment has enabled us to assess the effect of supplemental
oxygen during simulated air travel. Although a mass spectrometer was used, oxygen

The effect of high altitude commercial air travel on oxygen saturation

S Humphreys, R Deyermond, I Bali, M Stevenson… - …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… of air travel on oxygen saturation in general populations. The peripheral oxygen saturation
… at round level and altitude during air travel. There was a statistically significant reduction in …

COPD and air travel: oxygen equipment and preflight titration of supplemental oxygen

A Akerø, A Edvardsen, CC Christensen, JO Owe… - Chest, 2011 - Elsevier
… Patients with COPD may need supplemental oxygen during air travel to avoid … % oxygen
simulating aircraft conditions, can be used to establish the optimal dose of supplemental oxygen

Oxygen, food, and air travel

R Berger - Annals of Internal Medicine, 1990 - acpjournals.org
… (2) on the oxygen requirements of patients with lung disease who must travel by airplane. I
… result in an increase in the partial pressure of arterial oxygen (Pac>2) of about 11 mm Hg. …

Why is medical oxygen a challenge for people travelling by air?

R Orritt, P Powell, I Saraiva - Breathe, 2019 - Eur Respiratory Soc
oxygen when travelling. In this review, we discuss the journey of the patient planning to travel
by air, … test, through to planning their air travel and oxygen supply, travelling, and arriving at …

Effect of commercial airline travel on oxygen saturation in athletes

C Geertsema, AB Williams, P Dzendrowskyj… - British journal of sports …, 2008 - bjsm.bmj.com
… and Technology reviewed the literature on air travel and health. The committee came to
the … knowledge about the effect of oxygen desaturation on the travelling public.1 A specific …

Air travel hypoxemia with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

JS SCHWARTZ, HZ BENCOWITZ… - Annals of internal …, 1984 - acpjournals.org
… not recommend in-flight supplemental oxygen even though we have shown that severe
hypoxemia can occur. Many similar patients probably travel routinely on commercial airline flights…

Air travel for subjects receiving long-term oxygen therapy

CD Campbell, MW Smyth, L Brown, E Kelly - Respiratory Care, 2018 - rc.rcjournal.com
… For this purpose, patients in a supplementary oxygen database were … air travel to include
limitations, obstacles to air travel, personal experiences, and reasons why they would not travel. …

Effect of high altitude commercial air travel on oxygen saturation

DP Gradwell, JE Risdall - Anaesthesia, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… pointing to a link between venous thromboembolism and air travel [2]. In the paper quoted
… of hypoxia in the general population during air travel and although we acknowledge that a …