Assessing need for long-term oxygen therapy: a comparison of conventional evaluation and measures of ambulatory oximetry monitoring.
BACKGROUND: Appropriate identification of hypoxic patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is important because of the demonstrated survival benefit of long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) and its associated cost. Resting oxygen saturation (measured via pulse oximetry [S(pO2)]) and lowe...
| Publicado en: | Respiratory Care Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 115 - 120 |
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| Autores principales: | , , , , , |
| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
2003 Feb
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| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |