ABSTRACT
Hyperoxia is very common in critical patients, which causes varying degrees of pathophysiological damage. Hyperoxia is one of the main reasons for increasing mortality, prolonged hospital stay and poor prognosis of critical patients. Therefore, it is critical to carry out the standardized oxygen therapy. In this paper, we discussed the harmful effects of hyperoxemia to critically ill patients by reviewing the effect of hyperoxemia on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular, hyperoxia-induced lung injury, and the association of hyperoxemia with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and acute renal kidney injury (AKI). Meanwhile, we provided some management suggestions about standardized clinical oxygen therapy, oxygen therapy related research and clinical management of oxygen therapy, aimed at providing reference and research direction for standardizing clinical oxygenation process, reducing the occurrence of hyperoxemia, and making reasonable method for hyperoxemia prevention.