The practicalities of living with oxygen: a perspective from a person living with COPD

Although I welcomed oxygen into my life, it required a degree of adjustment and perseverance. The concentrator told all visitors that this was the home of a ‘patient’, and using ambulatory oxygen in public takes a lot of getting used to. Safe use of oxygen entailed some changes in routine activities...

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Autor principal: Smith, Vanessa
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/PMC4704533/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26741739
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npjpcrm.2015.72
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description Although I welcomed oxygen into my life, it required a degree of adjustment and perseverance. The concentrator told all visitors that this was the home of a ‘patient’, and using ambulatory oxygen in public takes a lot of getting used to. Safe use of oxygen entailed some changes in routine activities, and travel needs to be planned ahead to ensure that I don't run out of oxygen. Despite its drawbacks, oxygen has enabled me to have a full and active life once again.
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spelling pubmed-47045332016-01-20 The practicalities of living with oxygen: a perspective from a person living with COPD Smith, Vanessa NPJ Prim Care Respir Med Perspective Although I welcomed oxygen into my life, it required a degree of adjustment and perseverance. The concentrator told all visitors that this was the home of a ‘patient’, and using ambulatory oxygen in public takes a lot of getting used to. Safe use of oxygen entailed some changes in routine activities, and travel needs to be planned ahead to ensure that I don't run out of oxygen. Despite its drawbacks, oxygen has enabled me to have a full and active life once again. Nature Publishing Group 2016-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4704533/ /pubmed/26741739 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npjpcrm.2015.72 Text en Copyright © 2016 Primary Care Respiratory Society UK/Macmillan Publishers Limited http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 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-nc-nd/4.0/
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