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Why shouldn't patients with COPD receive 100% oxygen therapy
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Why shouldn't patients with COPD receive 100% oxygen therapy

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Giving COPD patients 100% oxygen desensitizes them (as they are used to low levels of oxygen), and it could lead the patients to stop breathing.
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