title: [Recent indications for home oxygen therapy].
abstract: Home oxygen therapy is a treating method with an effect on improving the life comfort and long of life in the group of patients suffered from non-neoplasmic lung diseases complicated by partial respiratory failure, proved in many clinical trials according to some estimations the number of patients in Poland who fulfill home oxygen therapy qualification's criteria is twice higher then the number of patients who benefit from this method of therapy. This situation should make pneumonologists concern with problems of patients suffered from the respiratory failure who need this kind of therapy.
authors.affiliation: Wojskowy Instytut Medyczny w Warszawie, Klinika Chorób Wewnetrznych, Pneumonologii i Alergologii CSK MON. slawekfrom@wp.pl
authors.forename: Sławomir
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: From
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lewandowski
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pacholska-Pytlakowska
mesh_terms: D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000451:nursing / Q000628:therapy*; D008173:Lung Diseases, Obstructive / Q000451:nursing / Q000628:therapy; D010102:Oxygen Inhalation Therapy / Q000451:nursing*; D011044:Poland; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000628:therapy