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Short-Term Oxygen Therapy Outcomes in COPD.


ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Short-term oxygen therapy (STOT) is often prescribed to allow patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to be discharged safely from hospital following an acute illness. This practice is widely accepted without being based on evidence.

Purpose

Our objective was to describe the characteristics and outcomes of patients with COPD who received STOT.

Patients and methods

The study was a secondary analysis of the INOX trial, a 4-year randomised trial of nocturnal oxygen in COPD. The trial indicated that nocturnal oxygen has no significant effect on survival or progression to LTOT, allowing our merging of patients who received nocturnal oxygen and those who received placebo into a single cohort to study the predictors and outcomes of STOT regardless of the treatment received during the trial.

Results

Among the 243 participants in the trial, 60 required STOT on at least one occasion during follow-up. Patients requiring STOT had more severe dyspnoea and lung function impairment, and lower PaO2 at baseline than those who did not. STOT was associated with subsequent LTOT requirement (hazard ratio [HR]: 4.59; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.98-7.07) and mortality (HR: 1.93; 95% CI: 1.15-3.24). The association between STOT and mortality was confounded by age, disease severity and comorbidities. Periods of STOT of more than one month and/or repeated prescriptions of STOT increased the probability of progression to LTOT (OR: 5.07; 95% CI: 1.48-18.8).

Conclusion

Following an acute respiratory illness in COPD, persistent hypoxaemia requiring STOT is a marker of disease progression towards the requirement for LTOT.

SUBMITTER: Soumagne T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9342700 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Short-Term Oxygen Therapy Outcomes in COPD.

Soumagne Thibaud T   Maltais François F   Corbeil François F   Paradis Bruno B   Baltzan Marc M   Simão Paula P   Abad Fernández Araceli A   Lecours Richard R   Bernard Sarah S   Lacasse Yves Y  

International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 20220728


<h4>Rationale</h4>Short-term oxygen therapy (STOT) is often prescribed to allow patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to be discharged safely from hospital following an acute illness. This practice is widely accepted without being based on evidence.<h4>Purpose</h4>Our objective was to describe the characteristics and outcomes of patients with COPD who received STOT.<h4>Patients and methods</h4>The study was a secondary analysis of the INOX trial, a 4-year randomised trial of  ...[more]

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