Long-term supplemental oxygen treatment results in little or no change in time to death, time to first hospitalizations or significant quality of life improvements for those with moderately low blood ...

A newly published study of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) concludes that long-term supplemental oxygen treatment results in little or no change in time to death, time to ...

A newly published study of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) concludes that long-term supplemental oxygen treatment results in little or no change in time to death, time to ...

The clinical and survival benefit of home oxygen therapy, both LTOT and nocturnal oxygen therapy, for patients with COPD and moderate hypoxemia was evaluated in this meta-analysis. Home oxygen therapy ...

PATIENTS hospitalized with advanced obstructive emphysema are often nervous, anxious and tense, perhaps to a greater degree than the average hospital patient. Because of dyspnea and cough they tend to ...

IN normal persons chronic hypoxia results in polycythemia. This phenomenon has been recognized and studied in high-altitude dwellers, and data obtained from such studies have come to be accepted as ...

Supplemental oxygen in patients with confirmed myocardial infarction has no clinical benefit irrespective of oxygen saturation levels at baseline, a new analysis of the Determination of the Role of ...