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Home oxygen in advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
The Medical Clinics of North America
|May 1, 1981
Summary
Home oxygen therapy is safe and practical for advanced COPD patients. Continuous oxygen improves survival and offers neuropsychiatric benefits, establishing it as palliative care.
Area of Science:
- Pulmonary Medicine
- Respiratory Care
Background:
- Home oxygen therapy is widely recognized as safe and practical.
- Continuous oxygen administration demonstrates improved survival rates compared to 12-hour regimens in advanced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
- Documented neuropsychiatric benefits associated with oxygen therapy exist.
Purpose of the Study:
- To establish home oxygen therapy as a palliative treatment for advanced COPD.
- To highlight the availability and practicality of various oxygen delivery systems.
- To identify areas for future research regarding oxygen therapy during sleep or exercise in COPD patients.
Main Methods:
- Review of existing studies on home oxygen therapy in COPD.
- Evaluation of different oxygen delivery systems (compressed, liquid, concentrators).
- Analysis of survival and neuropsychiatric outcomes associated with oxygen therapy.
Main Results:
- Home oxygen therapy is safe and practical for selected advanced COPD patients.
- Continuous oxygen therapy improves survival in advanced COPD.
- Oxygen therapy provides neuropsychiatric benefits.
Conclusions:
- Home oxygen therapy is an established palliative treatment for selected advanced COPD patients.
- Various practical oxygen systems are available.
- Further research is needed to assess oxygen's efficacy during sleep and exercise in COPD.