The clinical and survival benefit of home oxygen therapy, both LTOT and nocturnal oxygen therapy, for patients with COPD and moderate hypoxemia was evaluated in this meta-analysis. Home oxygen therapy ...

Of 3 recommendations provided for home oxygen use in patients with COPD, a strong recommendation was made for providing at least 15 hours per day of long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) in those with ...

A JAMA study has found that patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who received noninvasive ventilation in addition to home oxygen therapy went longer without being readmitted to ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although home use of short-burst oxygen therapy is widely prescribed in the UK for patients with COPD, it may be helpful only in a small minority of patients, researchers ...

Individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) experience improved breathing symptoms and dyspnea with use of automated oxygen administration. Automated oxygen administration (AOA) was ...

Nevertheless, further studies were validated not only because there were indications that a subset of patients with moderately severe COPD might have benefitted by oxygen supplementation but also ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The addition of high-flow nasal cannula to long-term oxygen therapy may ...

Among patients on long-term oxygen therapy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), women are more likely to die from the disease than men. This study appears in the first issue for September ...

COPD 5-year mortality was most likely in patients receiving long-term oxygen therapy, oral corticosteroids, and triple therapy. Increasing treatment intensity levels (TILs) in patients with chronic ...

Valerie Obenchain frames her company's work around the belief that oxygen-dependent patients deserve the same level of care ...

No benefit of high-flow therapy (HFT) can be derived from the available study data for patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or chronic type 1 respiratory failure. It ...