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Flying on a wing and a prayer
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Spirometry predicts hypoxia during flights more accurately than hypoxic challenge. So Buchdahl et al found when they tested their initial premise—that in children with cystic fibrosis (CF) and chronic lung disease fingertip pulse oximetry beforehand could predict O2 desaturation in flight—by direct measurement during flights.
In a five year study …