Implementers
These user scenarios are targeted to people with the authority to organize action plans and necessary resources and put them into practice, such as health care workers, health facility managers, procurement teams, and ministry of health or finance officials.
Planning for respiratory care at the facility level
Oxygen Delivery Toolkit: Resources to Plan and Scale Medical Oxygen
REPOSITORY / TOOLKIT | This Oxygen Delivery Toolkit provides materials to help plan, manage, and communicate the value of scaling up oxygen delivery systems and access to oxygen and pulse oximetry.
May 2020
By: PATH
Good Practices in the Rational and Effective Use of Oxygen
GUIDANCE | To promote the rational use of oxygen, a set of guidelines has been put together for the development of an efficient management system to deal with situations of oxygen scarcity.
February 2022
By: Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
UNICEF Oxygen System Planning Tool
TOOL | UNICEF has developed an Excel-based tool to help stakeholders plan their oxygen supply system.
July 2020
By: UNICEF
Oxygen Supply and Demand Calculator
TOOL | This tool provides a calculator to estimate oxygen demand based on oxygen source, total supply and usage, and patient needs.
By: World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA), University of California, San Francisco, Open Critical Care, Sustaining Technical and Analytic Resources (STAR) project
SEARO-IMAI Oxygen Survey at District and Regional Hospitals
TOOL | This guide and Excel tool should be used to administer the SEARO-IMAI oxygen survey at district and regional hospitals.
April 2020
By: Regional Office for the World Health Organization’s South-East Asia Region (WHO-SEARO)
Administering oxygen or respiratory care at the clinical level
Clinical Care of Severe Acute Respiratory Infections – Tool kit
REPOSITORY / TOOLKIT | First published in 2020, this toolkit is intended for clinicians working in acute care, managing adult and pediatric patients with acute respiratory infection.
April 2022
By: World Health Organization (WHO)
Oxygen Therapy for Children: A Manual for Health Workers
GUIDANCE | This manual focuses on the availability and clinical use of oxygen therapy in children in health facilities by providing the practical aspects for health workers, biomedical engineers, and administrators.
October 2016
By: World Health Organization (WHO)
Pocket Book of Hospital Care for Children: Guidelines for the Management of Common Childhood Illnesses
GUIDANCE | This pocket book for hospital care for children is one of a series of documents and tools that support the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI).
January 2013
By: World Health Organization (WHO)
Updated Guideline: Pediatric Emergency Triage, Assessment, and Treatment: Care of Critically-ill Children
GUIDANCE | WHO’s pediatric emergency triage, assessment and treatment guidelines aim to identify children presenting with airway obstruction and other breathing problems.
October 2016
By: World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, UNFPA
Training Videos for Biomedical Equipment for Oxygen Delivery Systems
PRESENTATION / WEBINAR | This webinar unveils a training course that was developed to teach health workers how to manage key respiratory medical equipment safely.
February 2022
By: World Health Organization (WHO)
The Oxygen Series
PRESENTATION / WEBINAR | This webinar series highlights the diagnosis and therapy for hypoxemia, both pediatric and adult.
April 2021
By: Assist International, Stanford Medicine – Anesthesia Division of Global Health Equity
Guideline on Management of Pneumonia and Diarrhoea in Children up to 10 years of age
GUIDANCE | This guideline aims to help WHO Member States and their partners make evidence-informed decisions on the appropriate actions in their efforts to address common childhood illnesses, including pneumonia and diarrhea.
December 2024
By: World Health Organization (WHO)
Ensuring oxygen safety at the facility level
Checklists for Care, Cleaning, Disinfection, and Sterilization of Respiratory Devices
TOOL | This collection of posters are intended for healthcare workers, biomedical engineers, and staff in charge of caring, cleaning, decontaminating, and sterilizing respiratory medical equipment in health facilities.
December 2021
By: World Health Organization (WHO)
EpiC Oxygen Quality Assurance Checklist
TOOL | The document outlines the quality assurance and risk mitigation activities and standards to follow before proceeding with an oxygen procurement.
December 2021
By: Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) project
Oxygen Cylinder Safety
TOOL | This poster is intended for health workers and other personnel on the safety and mitigation measures that need to be adhered to when dealing with medical oxygen cylinders.
April 2021
By: World Health Organization (WHO)
Medical Oxygen Fire Risk – Mitigation Measures
TOOL | This poster is intended for health workers and other personnel on the safety and mitigation measures that need to be adhered to when dealing with medical oxygen.
April 2021
By: World Health Organization (WHO)
Medical Gas Piping Systems Safety
TOOL | This poster is intended for health workers and other personnel on the safety and mitigation measures that need to be adhered to when dealing with medical oxygen piping systems.
April 2021
By: World Health Organization (WHO)
Properly maintaining respiratory care equipment
Medical Equipment Maintenance Program Overview
GUIDANCE | These documents look at how to plan, manage, and successfully execute a maintenance program for medical devices.
January 2011
By: World Health Organization (WHO)
Management and Safe Use of Medical Devices
GUIDANCE | The WHO developed a technical series to expand the expertise in medical devices to support member states to ensure improved access, quality and use of medical products and technologies.
August 2022
By: World Health Organization (WHO)
Biomedical Equipment Technician (BMET) Library
REPOSITORY / TOOLKIT | The Biomedical Equipment Technician (BMET) Library is a free library containing resources for the repair, maintenance and operation of medical equipment.
By: Engineering World Health
Medical Equipment Troubleshooting Flowchart Handbook
TOOL | This handbook provides troubleshooting flowcharts for various medical equipment, including respiratory equipment like oxygen concentrators, pulse oximeters, respiratory monitors, etc.
February 2013
By: Engineering World Health
Training Videos for Biomedical Equipment for Oxygen Delivery Systems
PRESENTATION / WEBINAR | This webinar unveils a training course that was developed to teach health workers how to manage key respiratory medical equipment safely.
February 2022
By: World Health Organization (WHO)
Decommissioning Medical Devices
GUIDANCE | This guide was created in response to insufficient knowledge about decommissioning medical device and is part of the WHO medical device technical series.
February 2019
By: World Health Organization (WHO)