Oxygen therapy in palliative care

Breathlessness in advanced disease is a common problem, with the majority of people experiencing breathlessness in the weeks before death. The thrust of the new British Thoracic Society guidelines for home oxygen in adults is that oxygen therapy for home use is most useful in chronic hypoxaemia. How...

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Autor principal: Fardy, H John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4704532/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26741911
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npjpcrm.2015.73
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description Breathlessness in advanced disease is a common problem, with the majority of people experiencing breathlessness in the weeks before death. The thrust of the new British Thoracic Society guidelines for home oxygen in adults is that oxygen therapy for home use is most useful in chronic hypoxaemia. However, clinicians make individual clinical decisions, cognisant of the guidelines but ultimately determined by what relieves the symptoms of the individual most effectively.
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spelling pubmed-47045322016-01-20 Oxygen therapy in palliative care Fardy, H John NPJ Prim Care Respir Med Perspective Breathlessness in advanced disease is a common problem, with the majority of people experiencing breathlessness in the weeks before death. The thrust of the new British Thoracic Society guidelines for home oxygen in adults is that oxygen therapy for home use is most useful in chronic hypoxaemia. However, clinicians make individual clinical decisions, cognisant of the guidelines but ultimately determined by what relieves the symptoms of the individual most effectively. Nature Publishing Group 2016-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4704532/ /pubmed/26741911 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npjpcrm.2015.73 Text en Copyright © 2016 Primary Care Respiratory Society UK/Macmillan Publishers Limited http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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