{"id":5820,"date":"2023-01-08T17:10:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T17:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/blog\/?p=3854"},"modified":"2023-06-19T09:41:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T09:41:56","slug":"when-was-oxygen-considered-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/when-was-oxygen-considered-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"When was oxygen considered medicine?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/jars-1853439_1920-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3855\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> Oxygen is now a common and essential use in medicine today but it has not always been considered medicine. It was not until 1885 when Dr George  <br>Holtzapple documented using oxygen with a patient who had pneumonia. <br><br><strong>What is medical oxygen used for?<\/strong><br>Medical oxygen is used for resuscitation, life support and anaesthesia. Medical oxygen is also used for respiratory diseases such as asthma, bronchitis, COPD and Covid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Where can you have medical oxygen?<\/strong><br>Medical oxygen is usually used mainly within a hospital or medical facility but you can also have medical oxygen on a plane, boat with use of portable oxygen cylinders and machines. Medical oxygen concentrators can also be used at home for patients who need oxygen most of the day and overnight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information feel free to speak with our team at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/blog\/contact-us\/\">OxygenWorldwide<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxygen is now a common and essential use in medicine today but it has not always been considered medicine. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,65],"tags":[12,49],"class_list":["post-5820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-portable-oxygen","category-medical-oxygen","tag-medical-oxygen-equipment","tag-medical-oxygen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5820","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5858,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5820\/revisions\/5858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}