Chest
Volume 121, Issue 3, March 2002, Pages 1007-1008
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Communications to the Editor
Changes in Oxygen Saturation in Patients Undergoing Fiberoptic Bronchoscopy

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To the Editor

We read with great interest the article by Jones and O'Driscoll that appeared in CHEST (June 2001).1 They reported that supplemental oxygen treatment during fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FOB) was required in 151 of the patients (14.4%), and nearly half of the patients who need supplemental oxygen therapy had FEV1 levels <1 L in a large-scale study. We have recently investigated the predicting factors on the changes in saturation during FOB in a prospective study. In our unit, based in a 500-bed

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