The national early warning score gives misleading scores for oxygen saturation in patients at risk of hypercapnia.
- Resource Type
- Letter to the Editor
- Authors
- O’DRISCOLL, B. RONAN; GRANT, KIRSTIE; GREEN, DARREN; EDEGHERE, SIMON; BAKERLY, NAWAR DIAR; MURPHY, PETER; EDWARDS, VAL; TURKINGTON, PETER M.; JONES, MIKE
- Source
- Clinical Medicine. Dec2014, Vol. 14 Issue 6, p695-696. 2p.
- Subject
- *NATIONAL health services
*PUBLIC health surveillance
*HYPERCAPNIA
*ACTIVE oxygen in the body
*CLINICAL medicine
*INFORMATION storage & retrieval systems
*MEDICAL databases
*EVALUATION of human services programs
*ELECTRONIC health records
*DISEASE risk factors
- Language
- ISSN
- 1470-2118
A letter to the editor is presented along with the author's response of an article related to the launch of National Early Warning Score (NEWS) system in Great Britain which provides oxygen saturation warning score of patients at risk of serious clinical deterioration.