For patients with severely compromised lung function, an important treatment is supplemental oxygen. Flawed Medicare payment policies prevent access to life-sustaining oxygen therapy for patients ...

JAMA recently published a patient-centered review on supplemental O2, and a there’s a new bill in Congress addressing oxygen reform. Aaron Holley, MD, takes a deep breath and dives into the topic.

In patients with COPD and severe hypoxemia, long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT), delivered for at least 15 to 18 hours per day or during sleep time (nocturnal oxygen therapy), has been found to ...

As a rule, caregivers in the United States and most of the developed world take oxygen availability for granted. Oxygen orders are placed, and the patient receives the requested amount. However ...

Some patients who have suffered at the hands of Lincare and Philips Respironics have joined forces with these corporations to lobby for an end to Medicare’s competitive bidding process for oxygen and ...

Patients with COVID-19 pneumonia who were discharged from the hospital on home oxygen had low rates of mortality and readmission within 30 days, according to new data published in JAMA Network ...

Among hospitalized COVID-19 patients, the use of high-flow oxygen through a nasal cannula reduced the need for invasive mechanical ventilation and sped up recovery compared to conventional oxygen ...

Aging infrastructure inside hospitals, delivery and distribution hurdles, and crushing demand have drained Southern California hospitals of a resource critical for fighting COVID-19: oxygen supplies.

THE management of the new Lima Regional Hospital, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam), has strongly rejected malicious and misleading reports being circulated on ...

As Los Angeles hospitals give record numbers of Covid patients oxygen, the systems and equipment needed to deliver the life-sustaining gas are faltering. It’s gotten so bad that Los Angeles ...

A woman in Germany is accused of turning off a neighboring hospital patient's oxygen machine twice because the noise disturbed her, authorities said.