Portable oxygen source failure

Educational use only. Not clinically reviewed

67-year-old woman for Portable oxygen source-failure recognition and reassessment. About 7 simulated minutes.

What you will practise

Reconcile the authored person, pulse-coherent saturation trend, spontaneous breathing, circulation, and expected oxygen delivery.
Record immediate experienced-team help and oxygen from a separate verified source before waiting for a final fault label.
Review the fixed source, regulator and flow, tubing, cannula, patient, and important alternative-cause report.
Record qualified restoration of the established prescribed pathway from a checked replacement source with independent backup.
After elapsed time, review the fixed whole-person response and confirmation that oxygen is reaching the patient.
After another elapsed interval, hand off the active oxygen need, verified source, reserve, backup, response, open causes, monitoring, and named owners.

Review and sources

Not clinically reviewed. No clinician has signed this scenario.

NHS England. Use of oxygen cylinders where patients do not have access to medical gas pipeline systems. National Patient Safety Alert NatPSA/2023/001/NHSPS. 2023.
O’Driscoll BR, Howard LS, Earis J, Mak V. BTS guideline for oxygen use in adults in healthcare and emergency settings. BMJ Open Respir Res. 2017;4:e000170. PMID 28883921. doi:10.1136/bmjresp-2016-000170.
World Health Organization. Technical specifications for health facility based medical oxygen systems. 2024. ISBN 978-92-4-010161-6.

Open Sim Lab is an educational simulator, not for clinical use. It is not a clinical decision-support tool, not a dosing calculator, and is not validated for any decision affecting a real patient.