Your ability to get adequate sleep directly influences your cognitive health. If you require a continuous oxygen concentrator throughout the night, the last thing you want is an obstacle to a good night’s sleep. In this blog post, we’re going to discuss continuous oxygen concentrators that are optimized for sleep.
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Pulse vs. Continuous Flow
When you’re first prescribed oxygen by your doctor, you will likely discuss the various options available to fit your needs. One of the first determining factors in starting oxygen therapy is figuring out if you’ll need a pulse or continuous-flow oxygen unit. Perhaps you’ve heard your doctor use the phrase “pulse” and “continuous flow” but do you really understand what it means? How does it correlate with machine pulse-dose settings? What’s the difference between the two? Which one is right for you? Let’s explore the differences below:
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Top Continuous Flow Portable Concentrators for 2024
Becoming increasingly popular and in demand are the portable oxygen concentrators that provide both pulse dose delivery mode and continuous flow oxygen delivery. These units are convenient, versatile and offer the user to choose which delivery mode to use based on their supplementary oxygen needs. For oxygen users who prefer pulse dose delivery during the day and continuous flow at night, these units are the optimal choice. Unlike pulse-dose only concentrators, these units are compatible with BiPAP, CPAP machines, and humidifier bottles on continuous flow.
Here at The Oxygen Concentrator Store, we carry the largest selection of continuous flow portable oxygen concentrators. Let’s take a look at the top 3 units of 2024 and break down what makes them our favorite.
Top Continuous Flow Portable Concentrators for 2023
Becoming increasingly popular and in demand are the portable oxygen concentrators that provide both pulse dose delivery mode and continuous flow oxygen delivery. These units are convenient, versatile and offer the user to choose which delivery mode to use based on their supplementary oxygen needs. For oxygen users who prefer pulse dose delivery during the day and continuous flow at night, these units are the optimal choice. Unlike pulse-dose only concentrators, these units are compatible with BiPAP, CPAP machines, and humidifier bottles on continuous flow.
Here at The Oxygen Concentrator Store, we carry the largest selection of continuous flow portable oxygen concentrators. Let’s take a look at the top 3 units of 2022 and break down what makes them our favorite.
Continuous Flow Portable Oxygen Concentrators: How Do You Compare Them?
If you need to purchase a continuous flow portable oxygen concentrator, it is essential to get the right device from the get-go. There is nothing worse than buying a medical device only to find out that it does not fit your oxygen needs.
In this blog post, we will explore how to compare continuous flow portable oxygen concentrators and briefly highlight 3 top concentrators.
Smallest Continuous Flow Portable Oxygen Concentrator
The Respironics SimplyGo portable oxygen concentrator is the smallest and lightest battery-operated concentrator capable of producing both pulse flow and continuous flow oxygen delivery. It weighs only 10 pounds and can be carried on the shoulder or more commonly, transported with a convenient wheeled cart. FAA-approved for use on domestic and international flights, this versatile machine is ideal for those who travel. Sleep therapy devices such as CPAP machines can be used in conjunction with the SimplyGo when set to continuous flow mode. Built to last, this technologically advanced concentrator is an ideal oxygen solution for both daytime and nighttime oxygen therapy.
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Long-Term Oxygen Therapy: Pulse Dose versus Continuous Flow
Long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) has been shown by extensive research data to improve overall survival, reduce hospitalizations, increase exercise tolerance as well as promote general well-being and quality of life to those with chronic respiratory failure. Typically patients requiring this therapy have COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). Another lung diseases such as pulmonary fibrosis as well as well as cancers that affect lung function either from a primary lung cancer or secondarily from a malignancy that has spread to the lungs may also require LTOT. Cardiac disease, such as congestive heart failure or cor pulmonale, also benefit from oxygen therapy.
SeQual Equinox Offers More Freedom to Continuous Flow Oxygen Patients
You will soon be able to take advantage of these technological advances with one of the newest continuous flow oxygen concentrator – the Sequal Equinox!
This comes from the makers of our customer favorites in the smallest portable models in the industry – AirSep, as well as the maker of one of the best continuous flow concentrators, Sequal (makers of the popular Eclipse series). They combined the best of both worlds in the Sequal Equinox. It weighs just 14 lbs (with the battery) and features continuous flow settings up to 3 LPM (liters per minute), as well as pulse dose settings as high as 6.
Meet Your Oxygen Needs with Pulse Dose and Continuous Concentrators
Some people who need oxygen therapy need a lot more than others to achieve the right oxygen saturation, and the pulse settings on some brands of oxygen concentrators can be misleading. This is why you need to be especially carefully when shopping for an oxygen concentrator to meet your oxygen needs.
The flow settings on portable oxygen concentrators with pulse dose settings of 1 – 5, for example, aren’t necessarily the LPM or liter flow that you would get with a continuous flow concentrators, or compressed or liquid oxygen. You have to be careful and read the bolus sizes (the oxygen pulse sizes) and make sure this will be enough for you for each breath.