Ambulatory oxygen for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who are not hypoxaemic at rest.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) often become transiently hypoxaemic (low oxygen levels in blood) on exercise, necessitating oxygen therapy to improve breathlessness and exercise capacity and to reduce disability. Ambulatory oxygen therapy refers to provision of oxygen therapy during exercise and activities of daily living. Ambulatory oxygen therapy is often used by patients on long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) during exercise or by non-LTOT users with or without resting hypoxaemia when they show evidence of exercise de-saturation and demonstrate improvement in exercise capacity with supplemental oxygen.

Objectives

To determine the longer-term efficacy of ambulatory oxygen therapy only in patients with COPD who do not meet the criteria for LT

SUBMITTER: Ameer F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7032676 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature