PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Hoyle, Brian
ED  - Stub, Dion
TI  - AVOID: Oxygen Use Damaging in STEMI
DP  - 2014  01
TA  - MD Conference Express
PG  - 22--23
VI  - 14
IP  - 52
4099  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/14/52/22.short
4100  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/14/52/22.full
AB  - The use of oxygen in the initial treatment of patients with suspected myocardial infarction (MI) dates back over a century. However, there is scant evidence for the benefit of oxygen in patients without hypoxia. The multicenter controlled AVOID trial compared routine supplemental oxygen with no supplemental oxygen on myocardial infarct size in normoxic (=?94%) patients with STEMI, as discussed in this article.