Mahla Salajegheh, Amir Ali Sohrabpour, Elaheh Mohammadi
Exploring medical students' perceptions of empathy after cinemeducation based on Vygotsky's theory
BMC medical education
hypoxia hyperoxia pulse oximetry spo2 96 associated increased mortality critically ill patients however provider practices regarding oxygenation traumatic brain injury tbi patients unknown study assesses views oxygenation critically ill trauma patients without tbi varies neurological icu neuroicu surgicaltrauma icu sticu providers crosssectional survey level trauma centers neuroicu sticu providers used likert scales yesno questions multiplechoice casebased scenarios characterize provider views oxygenation descriptive statistics characterize responses significant differences regarding tbi nontbi patients neuroicu sticu providers determined using fishers exact test pvalue 05 total 83 providers initiated survey 53 providers completed providers identified threshold spo2 92 administration supplemental oxygen critically ill tbi patients total 9 providers somewhat completely agreed likely give supplemental oxygen critically ill trauma patient tbi one without tbi spo2 total 48 providers selected spo2 90 point supplemental oxygen initiated patients without tbi compared 27 providers patients tbi p 01 threshold supplemental oxygen use varied provider type nontbi patients tbi patients 30 neuroicu 69 sticu providers selected spo2 90 nontbi p 05 30 neuroicu 35 sticu providers selected spo2 90 tbi p 85 critical care providers uchealth university colorado hospital approach oxygenation critically ill trauma patients without tbi differently specifically critical care respondents accepted different lower oxygen saturation threshold tbi nontbi patients neuroicu sticu respondents differed threshold downtitration supplemental oxygen targeted education critical care providers may reduce discrepancies optimize oxygen use