PEDIATRICS Vol. 65 No. 6 June 1980, pp. 1157-1160
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Nocturnal Oxygen Saturation in Normal and Asthmatic Children

Bradley E. Chipps MD1, Hailen Mak MD1, Kenneth C. Schuberth MD1, Jonathan H. Talamo 1, Harold A. Menkes MD1, and Merle S. Scherr MD2

1 The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Baltimore
2 Camp Bronco Junction Charleston, West Virginia

At sea level, it appears that oxygen desaturation does not occur in normal children at night and that the desaturation that occurs in moderately severe asthmatic children with therapeutic levels of theophylline does not approach dangerously low levels.




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