Home Oxygen Generator Home Breathing Machine can be used together?
Can be used together or separately.
The specific difference and when to cooperate and separate the following specific explanation:
Oxygen concentrator
It is a kind of safe and convenient used to produce high concentration of oxygen machine.
Oxygen concentrator, due to the different principles of oxygen production, the use of each home oxygen concentrator is characterized by different characteristics.
Oxygen generator oxygen production principle has:
1, molecular sieve principle; 2, polymer oxygen-rich membrane principle; 3, electrolysis of water principle; 4, chemical reaction oxygen production principle.
And molecular sieve oxygen generator is the only mature oxygen generator with international and national standards.
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Ventilator
It is a kind of medical equipment that can replace or improve the breathing of human beings, increase lung ventilation, and improve the respiratory function.
The ventilator is generally used for patients who cannot breathe normally due to lung failure or airway obstruction. To help the patient complete the breathing process of expiration and inhalation.
The ventilator, also known medically as mechanical ventilation (Ventilation). The natural breathing process is to expand the chest cavity to form a negative pressure, so that the gas into the lungs; mechanical ventilation is greater than the atmospheric pressure of the gas is forced into the lungs, said "breathing", more better to say "pumping".
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Based on the different connections of the ventilator, mechanical ventilation can be subdivided into non-invasive mechanical ventilation (Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV) and invasive mechanical ventilation (Invasive Mechanical Ventilation (IMV)) two kinds of equipment, namely non-invasive and invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) two kinds of equipment, the equipment is non-invasive and the equipment is non-invasive and the equipment is non-invasive. equipment, i.e., non-invasive ventilator and invasive ventilator.
NIV is usually done through a closed mask, while IMV involves inserting a tube into the windpipe.
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Do oxygen concentrators and ventilators have to work together?
Depending on the cause of the patient's illness
If the ventilator is used for simple apnea sleep apnea (OSA), it is not necessary to work with an oxygen concentrator in most cases.
Patients with apnea have no problems with their lungs, just snoring and pausing due to obstruction of the upper airway, so the ventilator only needs to open up the airway so that the patient's airway can be clear, then the patient can inhale enough air into the lungs for gas exchange in the lungs.
Patients with pulmonary heart disease, with oxygen together with the use of better, respiratory machine to assist the lungs to breathe out carbon dioxide, at the same time inhalation of oxygen concentration increases will play a very good oxygen therapy and health care role, to help alleviate the condition. In addition, patients with pulmonary heart disease every day when not using the ventilator treatment, can also be alone inhalation of oxygen health care, is also very good for the body.
If you ask whether you must match, it depends on the patient's specific condition. Simply put, a respiratory ventilation disorder that leads to problems with oxygen inhalation and carbon dioxide excretion requires the use of a ventilator. If there is a problem with the oxygenation capacity of the lungs, resulting in low blood oxygen concentration, increase the concentration of inhaled oxygen. If there is a problem with both then an oxygen concentrator is needed in conjunction with a ventilator.