[Recent indications for home oxygen therapy]

Abstract

Home oxygen therapy is a treating method with an effect on improving the life comfort and long of life in the group of patients suffered from non-neoplasmic lung diseases complicated by partial respiratory failure, proved in many clinical trials according to some estimations the number of patients in Poland who fulfill home oxygen therapy qualification's criteria is twice higher then the number of patients who benefit from this method of therapy. This situation should make pneumonologists concern with problems of patients suffered from the respiratory failure who need this kind of therapy.