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Available online /content/13/1/205 Review Bench-to-bedside review: Oxygen as a drug Haim Bitterman Department of Internal Medicine, Carmel Medical Center, The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, 7 Michal Street, Haifa 34362, Israel Corresponding author: Haim Bitterman, haimb@tx.technion.ac.il Published: 24 February 2009 Critical Care 2009, 13:205 (doi:10.1186/cc7151) This article is online at /content/13/1/205 ? 2009 BioMed Central Ltd Abstract The cost of a single use of oxygen is low. Yet in many hospitals, the annual ex