long term oxygen therapy
A study on sleep architecture in patients with chronic respiratory failure under long term oxygen therapy—Focused on the influence of ventilatory failure (high CO2) elements on the patient’s sleep architecture
... Sleep disturbance related symptoms are com- mon in patients with long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT). Essentially, there were only few previous reports about the sleep architecture in patients ...
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Which patients with moderate hypoxemia benefit from long-term oxygen therapy? Ways forward
... Abstract: Long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) improves prognosis in patients with COPD and chronic severe ...arterial oxygen; on air, ...
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Living in the Wake of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Long Term Oxygen Therapy
... domiciliary Long-Term Oxygen Therapy ...the oxygen therapy had a negative impact on their ...the oxygen therapy, physical capability and emotional ...
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Burn injury during long-term oxygen therapy in Denmark and Sweden: the potential role of smoking
... Background: Long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) increases life expectancy in patients with COPD and severe hypoxemia. Smoking is the main cause of burn injury during LTOT. Policy regarding smoking ...
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<p>Physical Activity in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease on Long-Term Oxygen Therapy: A Cross-Sectional Study</p>
... Chronic hypoxemia in COPD is a limiting factor asso- ciated with disease progression that signi fi cantly reduces PA and requires long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT). 13 – 15 Although correction of ...
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Chinese version of the severe respiratory insufficiency questionnaire for patients with COPD receiving long-term oxygen therapy
... Purpose: Patients with advanced-stage COPD often experience severe hypoxemia. Treatment with long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) may relieve patients’ symptoms and increase survival. As COPD is ...
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Assessment of cognitive impairment in long-term oxygen therapy-dependent COPD patients
... Background: A number of studies have shown that COPD, particularly in its later and more severe stages, is associated with various cognitive deficits. Thus, the primary goal of the present study was to elucidate the ...
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Long-term oxygen therapy in COPD patients: population-based cohort study on mortality
... Even though not statistically significant, our results of higher standardized mortality ratios in incident LTOT users with PaO 2 .60 mmHg at rest while breathing room air are alerting. They suggest that usage of LTOT in ...
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REgistry-based randomized controlled trial of treatment and Duration and mortality in long-term OXygen therapy (REDOX) study protocol
... Illness Therapy (FACIT)- fatigue scale [26], the Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly (IQCODE) [27], the Brief Anosognosia Scale (BAS) [28], the Functional Ac- tivities Questionnaire (FAQ) ...
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Cognitive dysfunction in severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with or without Long-Term Oxygen Therapy (LTOT)
... function) in a small sample of hypoxemic COPD patients [36]. Also the effect of a three-month LTOT on the func- tion of central and autonomic nervous system was investi- gated in this study. Patients’ cognition was shown ...
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A nationwide structure for valid long-term oxygen therapy: 29-year prospective data in Sweden
... All 48 units prescribing LTOT in Sweden report to Swedevox, and the completeness of patients starting LTOT was stable at about 85% since 1987. Reasons for not registering patients in Swedevox were reported by units as ...
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The risk of burn injury during long-term oxygen therapy: a 17-year longitudinal national study in Sweden
... home oxygen is full of controversy with ethical arguments of discrimination against smokers and the conflict between the patient’s right to smoke and the risk of harm to self and ...prescribing oxygen to ...
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The importance of knowing the home conditions of patients receiving long-term oxygen therapy
... ent study, prescription compliance regarding the number of hours spent per day receiving oxygen and the flow was 37%. Lack of treatment compliance can result in increased mor- bidity, greater impairment of quality ...
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Daily duration of long-term oxygen therapy and risk of hospitalization in oxygen-dependent COPD patients
... reports prescribed oxygen duration at baseline, and we can- not exclude that patients are either increasing or decreasing their prescribed dose of oxygen. In addition, there may be a selection bias due to ...
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Physical Inactivity: A Social Burden
... with long term Oxygen therapy 20 years ...of oxygen and the results compared. These early studies did show that long term oxygen therapy reduced pulmonary ...
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Hemoglobin and mortality in patients with COPD: a nationwide population-based cohort study
... receiving long-term oxygen therapy or required hospitalization, or analyzed a small number of patients or short-term ...with long-term oxygen therapy or ...
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Leaks can dramatically decrease FiO2 on home ventilators: a bench study
... of oxygen; IPAP: Inspiratory positive airway pressure; LTOT: Long term oxygen therapy; O2: Oxygen; NIV: Non invasive ventilation; NOTT: Nocturnal Oxygen Therapy ...
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Management and prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations: a state of the art review
... for long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) are well established, and LTOT is one of the few interventions proven to have a mortality benefit in COPD ...of oxygen on reducing exacerba- tions ...
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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for painful bladder syndrome/interstitial cystitis resistant to conventional treatments: long-term results of a case series in Japan
... collective term covering a range of clinical complaints and pathological ...appropriate therapy has not been estab- lished from clinical evidence ...
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A 12-year follow-up study of combined treatment of post-severe acute respiratory syndrome patients with femoral head necrosis
... hyperbaric oxygen. By 12-year long-term follow-up, some patients showed clinical improvement of ONFH, while most patients showed retardation of disease progression or even ...that ...
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