This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Resources
This library provides a comprehensive set of global and country-specific tools, guidance, and other resources to support oxygen scale-up and long-term respiratory care planning.
The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Centre
REPOSITORY / TOOLKIT | This resource library brings together new 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) content from across the Lancet journals as it is published.
By: The Lancet
Oxygen Is Essential: A Policy and Advocacy Primer
TOOL | Part of PATH’s Oxygen Delivery Toolkit, the primer provides data, messages, and resources to help understand the planning, policies, and technologies involved in oxygen delivery scale up.
November 2017
By: PATH
HO2PE: Oxygen Gives Life
MULTIMEDIA | The HO2PE campaign provides resources to increase awareness about the importance of oxygen treatment and its impact on saving precious breath and life around the world.
July 2018
By: PATH
Measuring Oxygen Access: Lessons from Health Facility Assessments in Lagos, Nigeria
JOURNAL PUBLICATION | Published in BMJ Global Health, this article presents a case study on oxygen access from 58 health facilities in Lagos state, Nigeria.
June 2021
By: Hamish Graham, Omotayo E. Olojede, Ayobami A. Bakare, Agnese Iuliano, Oyaniyi Olatunde, Adamu Isah, Adams Osebi, Tahlil Ahmed, Rochelle Ann Burgess, Eric D. McCollum, Tim Colbourn, Carina King, Obioma C. Uchendu, Adegoke G. Falade
Oxygen Therapy Part 1 — History, Physiology, and Evaluation
JOURNAL PUBLICATION | Oxygen is standard therapy for acute cardiopulmonary diseases, and long-term oxygen therapy is common in the outpatient setting. In part I of a two-part review in NEJM Evidence, Wemple and...
April 2023
By: Matthew Wemple, Kai Swenson, Erik Swenson
Estimated Future Mortality from Pathogens of Epidemic and Pandemic Potential
ARTICLE | This analysis used computational epidemiology and extreme events modeling simulations to estimate the risk of future mortality from low frequency, high severity epidemics and pandemics in two important categories—respiratory diseases...
November 2023
By: Nita Madhav, Ben Oppenheim, Nicole Stephenson, Rinette Badker, Dean Jamison, Cathine Lam, Amanda Meadows
Variability of Oxygen Requirements in Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients
JOURNAL PUBLICATION | Published in the Journal of Global Health, this sub-analysis of the COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium database assesses the oxygen consumption requirements of COVID-19 patients admitted to intensive care units.
February 2024
By: Lisa Smith, Samuel Huth, Alexander Rothkopf, Nicole White, Gianluigi Li Bassi, Jacky Suen, John Fraser
Pulse Oximetry Primer
TOOL | This primer is a summary of resources to help decision-makers, implementers, and advocates understand the planning, policies, and technologies involved in pulse oximetry scale-up.
May 2024
By: PATH
Reducing global inequities in medical oxygen access: the Lancet Global Health Commission on medical oxygen security
REPORT | This Commission situates medical oxygen as a multifaceted system, a vital service, and an essential medicine, and presents new estimates of global medical oxygen need, the coverage gap, and the...
February 2025
By: The Lancet Global Health