{"id":1375,"date":"2014-11-20T22:17:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T22:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxygenworldwide.wordpress.com\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2023-05-08T09:44:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T09:44:38","slug":"this-should-be-a-worldwide-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/this-should-be-a-worldwide-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"This should be a worldwide standard&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<b>A top doctor says the roll out of oxygen alert medical bracelets to patients with known Type 2 respiratory failure will help save lives.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/respiratory_photolr.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1377\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/respiratory_photolr.jpg\" alt=\"Respiratory_PhotoLR\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/b><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nDr Rose Sharkey, Respiratory Consultant, at the Western Health and Social Care Trust, said the easily recognisable purple oxygen alert bracelets will ensure rapid identification of a patient and ensure that ambulance staff transferring a patient to hospital, and doctors are immediately made aware of a patients oxygen therapy needs.<br \/>\nShe said: \u201cWe have been working closely with our colleagues in the Ambulance Service to ensure Paramedics firstly check if a patient is wearing one of our purple bracelets.<br \/>\n\u201cIf so, then can then check the patient\u2019s oxygen alert card which will tell them the correct amount of oxygen therapy to give a patient during an exacerbation of COPD, as they are transferred to hospital. The delivery of excess oxygen to this group of patients can be detrimental.<br \/>\n\u201cThe medical bracelets and oxygen alert cards will be distributed to patients attending respiratory clinics and through our Community Respiratory Services.\u201d<br \/>\nDr Nigel Ruddell, Assistant Medical Director, Northern Ireland Ambulance Service said: \u201cGood emergency care benefits greatly from teamwork, and anything which allows us to work collaboratively with our hospital colleagues to ensure a patient receives optimal care is to be welcomed. We have already seen the benefits of this alert system working elsewhere and are keen to roll it out on a regional basis to make sure that patients across Northern Ireland with complicated conditions can receive tailored treatment from the ambulance service that will mesh seamlessly with their ongoing care.\u201d\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top doctor says the roll out of oxygen alert medical bracelets to patients with known Type 2 respiratory failure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,167],"tags":[22,91,133,159,211,212,213,214],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-england","tag-copd","tag-health-2","tag-oxygen-therapy","tag-uk","tag-bracelet","tag-medical-bracelets","tag-oxygen-alert","tag-oxygenworlwide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5628,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/5628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}