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Oxygen Therapy Treatment Report
See also: Oxygen Concentrator
What is Oxygen Therapy?
Oxygen therapy is used to treat emphysema, pneumonia, some heart disorders, and any disease that impairs the body's ability to take up and use gaseous oxygen.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken |
# of patients
Efficacy
|
Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other | 16 |
|
|
3 | |||
| Breathing difficulty | 15 |
|
3 | ||||
| disease-related symptoms | 8 | 0 | |||||
| General health | 5 | 0 | |||||
| Fatigue | 5 | 0 | |||||
| Parkinson's Disease PD | 2 |
|
1 |
See all 58 patients currently taking Oxygen Therapy
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Oxygen Therapy. See all 23 dosages ►
| 10liter as needed | 1hours as needed | 24hours as needed | 2hours as needed | 2 hr all the time (24/7) | 2 L all the time (24/7) | 2 L as needed | 2liter as needed | 3hours as needed | 3 hr all the time (24/7) | 5 L all the time (24/7) | 5other as needed | all the time (24/7) | daily | hours as needed | 1 L daily | 2 L daily | 6 hr daily | 8 daily | 8 hr daily | 12 hr daily | 24 daily | 24 hr daily | ||
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1
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1
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1
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4
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1
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3
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2
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6
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1
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1
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1
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1
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4
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1
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4
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1
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8
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1
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1
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6
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1
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1
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2
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Doctor's advice
|
2 | 25% |
|
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Other
|
2 | 25% |
|
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Course of treatment ended
|
2 | 25% |
|
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Did not seem to work
|
1 | 13% |
|
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Not indicated
|
1 | 13% |
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Expense
|
1 | 13% |
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Personal research
|
1 | 13% |
|
Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
Patient Evaluations
See all 10 patient evaluations
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- BethCatz
- Sex: F
- Pain: Most
- Fatigue: All
- Sleep: All
- Stiffness: All
- function: Some
- external_stress: Some
- Stickman: all
- Description:F24y
- FM:2y Dx
- CFS:?y
- See profile
-
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- BethCatz
- 30 min weekly
- since Dec 10, 2009
-
Efficacy
Slight
for brain fatigue
-
Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
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- Wayne Lampe
- Sex: M
- Bulbar: mild
- Arms: mild
- Chest: mild
- Legs: moderate
- See profile
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- Wayne Lampe
- 24hours as needed
- since Oct 28, 2009
-
Efficacy
Major
for Other
-
Side Effects
Mild
- See full evaluation
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- Wen
- Sex: F
- Pain: All
- Fatigue: All
- Sleep: Most
- Stiffness: All
- function: None
- external_stress: All
- Stickman: all
- Description:F44y
- FM:14y Dx
- See profile
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- Wen
- 2liter as needed
- since Aug 30, 2009
-
Efficacy
Major
for hypoxia with sleep
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
See all 10 patient evaluations
Report created on March 22, 2010.