Which patients need home oxygen therapy?
Although oxygen inhalation has become the normal life of many patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema and other respiratory disorders, some patients and their families still have a certain degree of misunderstanding about oxygen therapy. They think that oxygen therapy is only needed in the rescue of acute disease, or that patients who need oxygen inhalation are very critical and do not pay attention to oxygen inhalation.
But in fact, for some patients with acute diseases that have been alleviated or chronic diseases who regularly go to the hospital outpatient service, doctors will prescribe oxygen therapy or medical advice in addition to drug treatment. In response to the question of oxygen therapy that people pay more attention to, respiratory experts gave the following answers:
Which patients need home oxygen therapy?
For patients with low blood oxygen, they can go to the respiratory specialist clinic of the hospital for detection and analysis before taking home oxygen therapy. Generally, patients with the following diseases can consider taking home oxygen therapy [suggested to be carried out under the guidance of the doctor]:
① Patients with chronic hypoxemia need to take oxygen for more than 15 hours every day, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (without carbon dioxide retention), pulmonary interstitial fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary heart disease, severe heart failure, etc.
② Some patients have mild or not persistent hypoxia (hypoxemia), which is often induced or aggravated by increased activity, excessive emotional tension, overeating, sleeping on their backs at night and other conditions. Regular intermittent short-time oxygen inhalation or intermittent acute oxygen inhalation can be used, such as: adult congenital heart disease, coronary heart disease, patients with a history of cerebral infarction, obesity, lung cancer, etc.
③ Some patients with acute diseases in the recovery period, such as acute myocardial infarction, acute cerebral infarction, severe myocarditis, severe pneumonia, or after cardiothoracic surgery, may have stage mild hypoxia or prone to hypoxemia, and intermittent oxygen therapy can also be used to improve hypoxia, improve heart, lung and brain functions, and promote recovery.
④ After the attack of acute bronchial asthma or epilepsy, patients will have different degrees of hypoxia. At this time, the use of acute oxygen therapy (10-20 minutes) can not only improve breathing difficulties and reduce brain damage, but also reduce the reoccurrence of acute attacks caused by hypoxia.
How To Do The Home Oxygen Therapy?
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