Oxygen Smart

There seems to be an increase in the number of people who have to receive extra oxygen. This may be a few hours a day or when exercising or even full time. The projections are that the numbers will grow as the general population gets older. Baby boomers are aging and many have smoked (something?) [...]

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.

POC’s (portable oxygen concentrators) were introduced around 2002 and have become a major player in the oxygen therapy area.  These are machines - and they include larger models as a home based stationary unit, or smaller portable ones, that do not store oxygen but recycle it instead.  They are powered by electricity and what they [...]