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Adult domiciliary oxygen therapy: a patient's perspective
Author(s) -
Cahill Lambert Anne E
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2005.tb07125.x
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , chief executive officer , officer , citation , executive summary , psychology , medicine , management , library science , law , political science , art , computer science , visual arts , business , economics , finance
Lyneham, ACT. Anne E Cahill Lambert, AM, MPubAdmin, BHA, Formerly Chief Executive Officer, Women’s Hospitals Australasia and Children’s Hospitals Australasia. The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 7 November 2005 183 9 472-473 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2005 www.mja.com.au Personal Perspective incorporates the use of ambulatory oxygen therapy to prognosis. They have also identified contraindicatio therapy, cited the appropriate levels of evidence as the National Health and Medical Research Coun MEDLINE, and undoubtedly worked their way various committees of the Thoracic Society of Austr Zealand (TSANZ). s I in co A recently walked around Canberra’s Lake Burley Griffin an air temperature of 5° C, I had plenty of time to ntemplate the position statement on acute domiciliary oxygen therapy recently published in the Journal. I have fibrosing alveolitis and am awaiting a lung transplant. I am on domiciliary oxygen therapy 24 hours a day. There is much in the position statement to congratulate the authors on. They have rightly identified the importance for people like me of maintaining an increased level of fitness, which improve our ns for oxygen prescribed by cil, searched through the alia and New