Uses
The use of oxygen in chronic respiratory and cardiac conditions is very often essential and it is needed for the relief of all forms of hypoxia other than histotoxic. In short, modern medicine could not be practised without the support that oxygen provides.

• In clinical practice to provide a basis for virtually all modern anaesthetic techniques as well as pre and post-operative management.
• To restore the tissue oxygen tension towards normal by improving oxygen availability in a wide range of conditions, such as:

1. Cyanosis of recent origin as a result of cardio-pulmonary disease
2. Surgical trauma, chest wounds and rib fractures
3. Shock, severe haemorrhage and coronary occlusion
4. Carbon monoxide poisoning
5. Hyperpyrexia
6. Major trauma, eg. road traffic accidents and gunshot wounds
7. In the management of sudden cardiac and respiratory arrest, whether drug induced or traumatic.
8. In the resuscitation of the critically ill when the circulation is impaired.
9. In neo-natal resuscitation.