On 2014 Aug 27, Ryan Radecki commented:

Post-publication commentary:

Hypoxia & Overtreatment in Bronchiolitis

“Treat the patient, not the number” works for many things in medicine – asymptomatic hypertension, hyperglycemia, and anemia, among others. However, hypoxia is less frequently dismissed as clinically irrelevant.

And, that perfectly explains the results in this study, which evaluated clinician dependence on oxygen saturation to guide disposition in pediatric bronchiolitis....

http://www.emlitofnote.com/2014/08/hypoxia-overtreatment-in-bronchiolitis.html

On 2014 Aug 27, Ryan Radecki commented:

Post-publication commentary:

Hypoxia & Overtreatment in Bronchiolitis

“Treat the patient, not the number” works for many things in medicine – asymptomatic hypertension, hyperglycemia, and anemia, among others. However, hypoxia is less frequently dismissed as clinically irrelevant.

And, that perfectly explains the results in this study, which evaluated clinician dependence on oxygen saturation to guide disposition in pediatric bronchiolitis....

http://www.emlitofnote.com/2014/08/hypoxia-overtreatment-in-bronchiolitis.html