Safety instructions
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Oxygen supply
Warning!
If oxygen is used during therapy, smoking and naked flames are prohibited.
Risk
of fire.
Oxygen may accumulate in clothing, bed-linen or in hair. It can be removed
only by thorough ventilation.
Caution!
Oxygen may only be supplied if O
2
supply valve WM 24042 is used. With regard to
oxygen, it is essential to follow the safety instructions in the instructions for use for
your oxygen supply system.
3.2 Contraindications
The therapy device should be used with particular caution or not at all with some diseases.
It is up to the doctor supervising treatment to decide whether use is indicated. In such cas-
es, use needs to be tightly controlled and the risk weighed up against the benefits.
This implies:
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Acute cardiac decompensation
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Severe cardiac arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation with reduced filling of the
right ventricle.
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Insufficiency of the right heart or other pulmonary hypertension
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Severe hypotension, especially in combination with intravascular volume
depletion
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High risk of barotraumas
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Bullous lung emphysema
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Severe deyhdration
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Severe epistaxis (nosebleeds)
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Acute sinusitis, otitis media or perforated eardrum
•
Pneumothorax or pneumomediastinum
•
Pneumoencephalus
•
Severe skull trauma
•
Status following brain surgery and following surgical intervention on the
pituitary gland or the middle/ inner ear.