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This meta-analysis showed that heliox, a mixture of helium and oxygen, offers minimal benefit during the first hour of treatment, and this benefit is not sustained. More importantly, it was not demonstrated that there was a difference in important clinical outcomes. Patients on a traditional air-oxygen mixture do just as well in the medium to long term.
Hypoxemic patients are not suitable for heliox therapy. Therefore, heliox should not be used in place of traditional oxygen or oxygen-air mixtures in acute exacerbations of asthma.
This meta-analysis showed that heliox, a mixture of helium and oxygen, offers minimal benefit during the first hour of treatment, and this benefit is not sustained. More importantly, it was not demonstrated that there was a difference in important clinical outcomes. Patients on a traditional air-oxygen mixture do just as well in the medium to long term.
Hypoxemic patients are not suitable for heliox therapy. Therefore, heliox should not be used in place of traditional oxygen or oxygen-air mixtures in acute exacerbations of asthma.
This meta-analysis showed that heliox, a mixture of helium and oxygen, offers minimal benefit during the first hour of treatment, and this benefit is not sustained. More importantly, it was not demonstrated that there was a difference in important clinical outcomes. Patients on a traditional air-oxygen mixture do just as well in the medium to long term.
Hypoxemic patients are not suitable for heliox therapy. Therefore, heliox should not be used in place of traditional oxygen or oxygen-air mixtures in acute exacerbations of asthma.