Oxygen Therapy for COVID-19

• Oxygen therapy is a known intervention to reduce mortality in severe respiratory diseases.

Indications of Oxygen Therapy:

• In the hospital setting, give oxygen immediately to patients with severe acute respiratory illness (SARI):
• Severe respiratory distress
• Sepsis with hypo-perfusion or shock
• Alteration of mental status
• Hypoxemia
• SpO2 < 90% (if the patient is hemodynamically normal)
• SpO2 < 94% (if a patient with any emergency signs of the airway, breathing or circulation)
• SpO2< 92–95% (if pregnant woman).
• If no pulse oximeter, use clinical signs to trigger oxygen therapy: dyspnea, difficulty breathing, central cyanosis, chest crackles, tachycardia, restlessness, drowsiness and confusion.