title: Caring for patients receiving oxygen therapy.
abstract: Although respiratory disease can occur at any age, older people are more likely to suffer both acute and chronic respiratory disease. Without sufficient oxygen, cells fail and die, and extensive cell death causes body systems to fail. This article considers the principles of short-term oxygen therapy and offers guidance to nurses who may be required to administer such treatment in their work with older people.
authors.affiliation: Practice Development Unit, Buckland Hospital, Dover.
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Woodrow
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005851:Geriatric Nursing; D006801:Humans; D008397:Masks; D010102:Oxygen Inhalation Therapy / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing*; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000451:nursing / Q000628:therapy