A new study about the use of oxygen to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease has found that the majority of patients receiving oxygen therapy were low-income, non-Hispanic white females ...

Home oxygen therapy had no effect on exacerbations, hospitalizations, or quality of life of patients with COPD and moderate hypoxemia at the 3-year follow-up.

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease receiving home oxygen have a higher risk of burn injury, a study shows. Physicians prescribing oxygen to patients with COPD struggle to balance ...

The findings also indicated that one out of 1,421 patients with COPD prescribed oxygen therapy sustained a burn injury each year.

Is oxygen therapy beneficial in patients with moderate COPD? Dr Gross reviews new research from the New England Journal of Medicine.

Breathing in additional oxygen improves the function of blood vessels in the brains of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to recent research.

(HealthDay News) — Oxygen therapy may not help patients in the less severe stages of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to research published in the Oct. 27 issue of the New ...

Maximal oxygen therapy was not superior for either component of the primary outcome as well: death from any cause (31.6% vs 27.4%, respectively), hospitalization for any cause (57.3% in both ...

Adding home noninvasive ventilation to home oxygen therapy was effective in patients with persistent hypercapnia following an acute exacerbation of COPD.

Nocturnal oxygen is an expensive therapy that did not affect survival or disease progression among patients with COPD and isolated nocturnal oxygen desaturation.

(HealthDay)—For patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the use of formal palliative care services and long-term oxygen therapy has increased but remains low ...

The latest clinical practice guideline on home oxygen therapy addresses long-term and ambulatory oxygen therapy for adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and interstitial lung ...