Continuous home oxygen therapy.
Oxygen therapy is defined as the therapeutic use of oxygen and consists of administering oxygen at higher concentrations than those found in room air, with the aim of treating or preventing hypoxia. This therapeutic intervention has been shown to increase survival in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and respiratory failure. Although this concept has been extended by analogy to chronic respiratory failure caused by respiratory and non-respiratory diseases, continuous oxygen therapy has not been shown to be effective in other disorders. Oxygen therapy has not been shown to improve survival in patients with COPD and moderate hypoxaemia, nor is there consensus regarding its use during nocturnal desaturations in COPD or desaturations caused by effort. The choice of the oxygen source must be made on the basis of criteria such as technical issues, patient comfort and adaptability and cost. Flow must be adjusted to achieve appropriate transcutaneous oxyhaemoglobin saturation correction.
Unidad Médico-Quirúrgica de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, CIBERES, IBIS, Sevilla, España. Electronic address: f.o.r@wanadoo.es.
Francisco
F
Ortega Ruiz
Servicio de Neumología, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, España.
Salvador
S
Díaz Lobato
Servicio de Neumología, Hospital Universitario de Cruces, CIBERES, Bilbao, España.
Juan Bautista
JB
Galdiz Iturri
Servicio de Neumología, Hospital Universitario La Paz-IdiP, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, CIBERES, Madrid, España.
Francisco
F
García Rio
Servicio de Neumología, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, España.
Rosa
R
Güell Rous
Servicio de Neumología, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, España.
Fátima
F
Morante Velez
Servicio de Neumología, Hospital Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, España.
Luis
L
Puente Maestu
Unidad de Neumología, Hospital Universitario de Granollers, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Granollers, Barcelona, España.
Julia
J
Tàrrega Camarasa
D004867:Equipment Design; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000628:therapy; D010102:Oxygen Inhalation Therapy / Q000295:instrumentation; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000628:therapy; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000628:therapy
Enfermedades respiratorias; Oxigenoterapia; Oxygen therapy; Procedimientos y técnicas domiciliarias; Procedures and domiciliary techniques; Respiratory diseases; Respiratory therapy; Terapias respiratorias