Patient-Centric LTOT: No Room for Complacency
| Autor: | Patrick J Dunne, Robert W McCoy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
| Předmět: |
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
medicine.medical_specialty COPD business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Oxygen Inhalation Therapy General Medicine Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine medicine.disease respiratory tract diseases Automation Pulmonary Disease Chronic Obstructive Patient centric Chronic hypoxemia Oxygen therapy Exercise Test medicine Humans Hypoxia Intensive care medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Respiratory Care. 56:536-537 |
| ISSN: | 1943-3654 0020-1324 |
| DOI: | 10.4187/respcare.01288 |
| Popis: | The benefits of the continuous administration of supplemental long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) for the amelioration of the sequelae of severe chronic hypoxemia (baseline PaO2 ≤ 55 mg Hg or SpO2 ≤ 88%) secondary to COPD, are well established. When properly prescribed and delivered, LTOT improves |
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