Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Allocation: NA | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 20
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
We will determine whether oxygen therapy lowers the level of substances in the blood which cause inflammation, which is one of the adverse effects of COPD and whether oxygen improves overall well being and quality of life as well as sleep quality.

Detailed description:
Hypothesis: Isolated nocturnal hypoxemia contributes to chronic systemic inflammation in COPD by activating circulating neutrophils.

Arms:
arm 1: Patients are their own controls and tested pre and post the addition of night time supplemental oxygen

Interventions: intervention 1: Oxygen
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Oxygen 2-3L Nasal cannula

Protocol document: