This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

MELVIN W. BINGER, M.D.; E. STARR JUDD, M.D.; ALEXANDER B. MOORE, M.D.; RUSSELL M. WILDER, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1928;17(6):1047-1050.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

In the symposium on treatment with oxygen in cases of pneumonia that was presented last year at the meeting of the Association of American Physicians, Binger,¹ Barach² and Boothby³ suggested that the disrepute of such treatment could be accounted for by the ineffectiveness of former methods of administering the oxygen. They then described the newer apparatus, the oxygen chamber and the oxygen tent, by means of which it is possible to envelop the patient, or his head, in an atmosphere of any concentration of oxygen desired. They demonstrated that with atmospheres of about 50 per cent oxygen, anoxemia could usually be controlled, and the patient with pneumonia improved subjectively; the temperature and pulse often fell dramatically.

The present report is concerned chiefly with the treatment with oxygen in cases of postoperative pneumonia at The Mayo Clinic. Up to Jan. 1, 1927, oxygen had been used in only . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Fellow in Medicine, The Mayo Foundation; ROCHESTER, MINN.

From The Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

Footnotes
Read before the Association of American Physicians, Washington, D. C., May 1, 1928.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?