Home oxygen therapy for adults with COPD and ILD: ATS Guidelines
New clinical practice guideline on home oxygen therapy in adults with COPD and ILD.
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American Thoracic Society has released latest clinical practice guideline on home oxygen therapy for adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and interstitial lung disease (ILD).
The new guideline was borne out of the 2017 ATS workshop on Optimizing Home Oxygen Therapy data, which "identified the lack of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for appropriate use of home oxygen as a critical gap," wrote the guideline panel. These guidelines provide the basis for evidence-based use of home oxygen therapy in adults with COPD or ILD but also highlight the need for additional research to guide clinical practice.
The guidelines have been published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
Further rationale for new guidance came out of "a summary of results from an online survey of almost 2,000 oxygen users in the U.S. describing the multiple problems they had in accessing and using their oxygen," said Susan S. Jacobs, MS, RN, co-chair of the guideline committee and a research nurse manager in Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine at Stanford University.
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