If you purchase, own or rent an oxygen concentrator, you might have technical questions or be curious to see the manual. User manuals can be a great resource for product information and trouble-shooting problems with your old machine or becoming accustomed to a new oxygen machine.
The Oxyen Concentrator Store website has manuals for oxygen concentrators, both portable and home, and is likely to have the manual and information that you are looking for.
Continue Reading
Lung disease requires ongoing treatment to help extend your life and make it better. Oxygen therapy helps deliver oxygen to your lungs so your blood can perform all the necessary tasks within your body. Many patients with COPD or other lung diseases rely on home oxygen concentrators to get the correct amount of oxygen. Sadly, many people skip out on travel or vacation because they don’t want their oxygen concentrators to drag them down.
Although you may think that oxygen therapy limits your mobility, this is actually the opposite of the purpose of this form of treatment. It is true that many home concentrators aren’t travel-friendly, but there are alternative forms of oxygen therapy to help get you moving. This is the case whether you take oxygen through a mask or a breathing tube.
Portable oxygen concentrators make it easy to continue your therapy without having to skip out on yet another family vacation. These machines are battery operated, so you don’t need to mess with trying to find an extension cord while enjoying a tropical beach or taking a tour of the Grand Canyon.
Oxygen concentrators are medical devices used to assist patients who require more oxygen than is available in the ambient air. Oxygen therapy is a common method of treatment for many lung and respiratory conditions. An oxygen concentrator is a considerably safer and more convenient alternative to compressed oxygen tanks.
An oxygen concentrator has two cylinders filled with a substance called zeolite, which removes nitrogen from the air. One cylinder is pressurized and the nitrogen is absorbed, while in the second chamber it’s allowed to dissipate back into the surrounding air. Concentrators are available that handle various flow rates and concentrations to meet the individual needs of the patient.
Basics: there are two types of portable oxygen concentrators; one type only does Pulse Dose and the other does both Pulse Dose and Continuous Flow.
When a doctor writes an order for oxygen in Liters/LPM (liters per minute), that implies Continuous Flow oxygen and not Pulse Dose. The reason for this is that LPM is literally measuring the flow of oxygen over the course of one minute. A machine that does Pulse Dose outputs the oxygen in puffs, or “on-demand.” It’s not flowing continuously, but only when the patient inhales and triggers the machine. So a Pulse Dose machine will never truly deliver liters per minute, because it is not able to. The Pulse Dose only machines give the “puffs” an arbitrary number to coincide with the size of the puff. A single puff is actually measured in terms of the volume, or size, of the puff. To clarify, think of the puff as if it were a drop of water instead. The pulse dose setting is measuring the size of the drop, as opposed to how quickly it’s running down the window pane.
