Home oxygen therapy reduces risk of hospitalisation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a population - based retrospective cohort study, 2005 — 2012
Occasionally, cardiology patients or pets with underlying respiratory disease will benefit from long - term, at -
home oxygen therapy.
Some babies need
home oxygen therapy for several months.
Not exact matches
When compared with newborns of women who planned a hospital birth attended by a physician, those whose mothers planned a
home birth were similarly at reduced risk of birth trauma (RR 0.33, 95 % CI 0.15 — 0.74), resuscitation at birth (RR 0.56, 95 % CI 0.32 — 0.96) and
oxygen therapy behond 24 hours (RR 0.38, 95 % CI 0.24 — 0.61)(Table 4, Appendix 1).
Newborns in the
home - birth group were less likely than those in the midwife - attended hospital - birth group to require resuscitation at birth (RR 0.23, 95 % CI 0.14 - 0.37) or
oxygen therapy beyond 24 hours (RR 0.37, 95 % CI 0.24 - 0.59).
Some families are willing to provide
oxygen therapy at
home for their ailing pets and the veterinarian can prescribe it through a medical supply house.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE Extensive job knowledge on most all
home medical equipment, particularly respiratory equipment, such as stationary and portable
oxygen concentrators, portable
oxygen cylinders and
oxygen conserving regulators, PAP equipment and related supplies, suction equipment, nebulizer compressors and large volume compressors used to provide high humidity aerosol
therapy to trach patients.