Ringing a bell in healthcare: harnessing benefits, overcoming implementation challenges, and bridging knowledge gaps of Closed-Loop Oxygen Control systems (CLOCs)

Journal article

Dear Editor, The World Health Organization has listed oxygen as an essential medicine.() Commonly prescribed for hospitalized pediatric and adult patients, there is a wide opportunity to improve its effectiveness by promoting the more rational, sustainable, and safe use of supplemental oxygen.(,) Guidelines and recommendations for oxygen use may help healthcare workers to adopt and achieve specific oxygen targets,() mitigating hyperoxemia, and hypoxemia.(,) Staying within safe targets, however, can be challenging, and is also quite time-consuming and labor-intensive, as it [...]

Authors: Mól, CG; Vieira, AGDS; Eid, RAC; Serpa Neto, A; Schultz, MJ

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Sociedade Beneficente Israelita Brasileira Hospital Albert Einstein
• Journal: Einstein (São Paulo)
• Volume: 22
• Pages: eCE0910-eCE0910
• Article number: eCE0910
• Publication date: 2024-03-25
• DOI: 10.31744/einstein_journal/2024ce0910
• ISSN: 1679-4508
• Language: English
• Keywords: Telecommunications; Process management; Computer security; Closed loop; Business; Engineering; Health care; Bridging (networking); Computer science; Control engineering; Ringing; Artificial intelligence; Double loop; Political science; Control (management)