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You are seeing a 3mo old with clinical bronchiolitis who is otherwise well-appearing, tolerating po’s, not in significant respiratory distress, afebrile, has good follow-up. At what O2 sat do you admit the patient for supplementary O2?
The AAP says:
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November 8, 2016 at 9:31 am
90%. We use a pathway algorithm to determine who gets admitted for bronchiolitis.
November 8, 2016 at 10:10 am
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November 17, 2016 at 1:25 am
Here is a very interesting study where the investigators basically tricked the ED doctors into believing that the O2 sat was 3 points higher than it actually was in a group of infants with bronchiolitis. They found that infants with an artificially higher O2 sat were less likely to be admitted to the hospital or treated for longer than 6 hours in the ED, but had no increase in adverse effects. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25138332