Long-term oxygen therapy

Long-term oxygen therapy.

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Long-term oxygen therapy.

ong-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) is an important adjunct in the treatment of many hypoxemic patients. Appropriate prescription by the physician requires knowledge ofthe rationale for oxygen therapy, the indications for its use, and the appropriate delivery system for individual patients. Recommendations for use of LTOT should be guided by clear data, clinical judgment, and the consensus recommend...

Delivery systems for long-term oxygen therapy.

Table 5 summarizes my current perspective on home oxygen delivery systems in the United States. As I already indicated, scoring for cost and labor may be very different in other countries. As noted, all things considered, today the most reasonable system for home oxygen therapy is the concentrator. Problems with FIO2, liter flow, and portability are clearly overshadowed by cost, labor, ease of ...

Perspective on long term oxygen therapy

The paper by Dal Negro et al. [1] raises a number of interesting issues. Patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were ranked according to hemoglobin in a program of monitored long term domiciliary oxygen therapy (LTOT). Good therapeutic compliance (mean 17 hours/24 hour day) using liquid oxygen at a flow rate of 2.3 L per minute, presumably through nasal cannulae, was ...

Provision of long term oxygen therapy.