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Hi I was hoping for some help, i have an interview tomorrow as a band 6, and believe there may be a question relating to oxygen tents and their setting, can anyone enlighten me?? I have an idea of what they are and how they are used but never used one so have no idea on the setting!!!!!
Thanks Kate
An oxygen tent consists in a canopy placed over the head and shoulders or over the entire body of a patient to provide oxygen at a higher level than normal.
I think this will help you in interview.
To elaborate, it could be valuable to look into the therapeutic intent of providing higher oxygen levels.
A couple that come to mind would be when someone's lungs aren't working the best so they can't go through as much volume, in that case perhaps they could get more oxygen with less breathing when the air has an ideal saturated content?
The other is, I have heard they do this for burn victims who are having a lot of cell death, I am not sure if that is fully agreed upon though. This latter case probably falls outside the scope of physiotherapy into surgical medicine though so I am guessing the former could be more relevant?