Oxygen - Benefit and Risks

The following article contains the lectures of an equally named symposium, held at Hanover Medical School on September 1st 2001. The meeting was held in tradition of 200 discussion meetings of local anaesthesists and marked the 100th platform “anaesthesiology, intensive care medicine, emergency medicine, pain therapy”. The aim was to examine more closely the most common and apparently well known molecule in anaesthesiology from various sites. As well as the anaesthetists are aware of oxygen as an indispensable part of life, as less the specific physical and chemical risks are known. E. Schwanbom from Luebeck tec…