Oxygen Smart

When you place these two phrases together, “oxygen therapy” and “quality of life”, it appears that they contradict each other. But many times the normal reaction is to ask the question:
“How can you think of achieving quality of life if you are dependent on supplemental oxygen on a full time basis?”
But is it really a [...]

Portable oxygen machines and specially portable oxygen concentrators have changed the way many people, who must have continuous or semi continuous oxygen therapy, are now living.
It used to be that mobility for COPD patients was severely restricted. This meant being house bound or overly dependent on a hospital or clinic.
With the advent of much more [...]

For the many thousands of people who depend on supplemental oxygen it is not something they like or something they had looked forward to doing before they were prescribed with additional oxygen. It is however an ever present fact of their lives.
At this stage wishful thinking is worse than useless - it is an excuse [...]

I suspect that aqua-lungs, developed for our survival under water where we can’t breathe, were the inspiration for the types of oxygen systems that are in use today.A design revolution in its time as it replaced those heavy, cumbersome oxygen suits that were anchored by weights and resembled some sort of deep sea monster from a Jules Verne novel.