Patients with hypoventilation may need supplemental oxygen on-board flights

Tuesday, August 5, 2014 - 03:31 in Health & Medicine

Severely overweight people who suffer from hypoventilation can have abnormally low levels of oxygen in their blood during air travel as a result of reduced atmospheric pressure in the cabin of aircrafts.

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