Oxygen Therapy and Risk of Infection for Health Care Workers Caring for Patients With Viral Severe Acute Respiratory Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

24 , 27 , 33 One of these studies reported an increased risk of infection with such an exposure (OR=17.00 [95% CI 1.75 to 165.00]), 27 whereas the results of the others did not reach statistical significance (OR=11.60 [95% CI 0.88 to 153.29] 33 and OR=2.14 [95% CI 0.94 to 4.89]). 24 The results of 9 aerosol dispersion models pertaining to the administration of conventional oxygen therapy are presented in Appendix E2 and Table E7 , available online at http://www.annemergmed.com .

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