The Basics of Oxygen Monitoring and Oxygen Therapy during the COVID-19

This video provides a basic description of oxygen monitoring and oxygen therapy for the purposes of healthcare workers in low-resource, international settings who may be evaluating patients with COVID-19. This video shows that measuring oxygen levels and providing oxygen therapy is simple, painless, and can save lives, even in people with no symptoms.View Transcript: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/videos/oxygen-therapy/Basics_of_Oxygen_Monitoring_and_Oxygen_Therapy_Transcript.pdf

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