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The Ewha Medical Journal
Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

Ewha Med J 1990; 13(4):431-434

pISSN: 1598-7450

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1990.13.4.431

Original Article

The Effect of Oxygen Asministration by Reservoir Tube During Immediate Postoperative Period

Guie Young Lee

Copyright ⓒ 1990. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Abstract

Arterial hypoxemia is a frequent occurrence in the immediate postoperaive period. For this reason many patients are given supplemental oxygen after operation.

The present study was undertaken to compare the oxygenation by the various techniques (room air, reservoir tube, nasal cannula and simple mask) of administration in 40 patients in the recovery room.

The results were as follows :

1) All patients were not found to be hypoxic at the time of admission in the recovery room.

2) There were significant increase of PaO2 and saO2 in reservoir tube, nasal cannula and simple mask group.

3) There were no significant changes in arterial pH, PaCO2 and base excess.

In conclusion, resevoir tube is recommended effective and convenience device as means of oxygenation in the postopertive period.