As I recently walked around Canberra’s Lake Burley Griffin in an air temperature of 5°C, I had plenty of time to contemplate the position statement on acute domiciliary oxygen therapy recently published in the Journal.1 I have fibrosing alveolitis and am awaiting a lung transplant. I am on domiciliary oxygen therapy 24 hours a day.
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- 1. McDonald CF, Crockett AJ, Young IH. Adult domiciliary oxygen therapy. Position statement of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand. Med J Aust 2005; 182: 621-626. <MJA full text>
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