Oxygen Therapy in Advanced Disease: Do You Know the Evidence?
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https://doi.org/10.24950/rspmi/Revisao/75/19/4/2019Keywords:
Oxygen Inhalation Therapy, Palliative CareAbstract
Dyspnoea is one of the most troublesome symptoms for
both patients with advanced disease and healthcare professionals. We still have a long path to run across, but there is
already plenty of information supporting that oxygen should
be carefully prescribed in end of life since as any other treatment there are side effects related to it and in many situations there seems to be no additional benefit on prescribing
this therapy. The present article constitutes a bibliographic
review of published data on this matter, being the main goal
of the authors to contribute to improve the treatment of end
of life patients.
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