Comments on: Need information about portable oxygen machines? http://www.medicalsupplyservices.com/blog/need-information-about-portable-oxygen-machines/ Wed, 23 May 2012 00:41:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Mary http://www.medicalsupplyservices.com/blog/need-information-about-portable-oxygen-machines/comment-page-1/#comment-902 Mary Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:27:32 +0000 http://www.medicalsupplyservices.com/blog/need-information-about-portable-oxygen-machines/#comment-902 Talk to your mother pulmonologist and or dme provider. That person may have had liquid oxygen or been using what is called a conserving devise. A conserver is not for everyone. Instead of the oxygen running continuously, it only pulses or doses the oxygen when you inhale. It can be set for every breath, every other, every fourth. So if a big tanks last 4 hours, a small tank will do the same because it is not constant. Usually they need to make sure that the person is getting enough oxygen so they will hook up a pulse ox on the finger and have the patient try the conserver for a few hours and make sure the oxygen saturation stays above 90. There is a small sound that the puff of air makes and for some people this drives them nuts. Most people get use to it and they do not hear it after awhile. Hope this helps This website has a picture of the devices. Talk to your mother pulmonologist and or dme provider. That person may have had liquid oxygen or been using what is called a conserving devise. A conserver is not for everyone. Instead of the oxygen running continuously, it only pulses or doses the oxygen when you inhale. It can be set for every breath, every other, every fourth. So if a big tanks last 4 hours, a small tank will do the same because it is not constant. Usually they need to make sure that the person is getting enough oxygen so they will hook up a pulse ox on the finger and have the patient try the conserver for a few hours and make sure the oxygen saturation stays above 90. There is a small sound that the puff of air makes and for some people this drives them nuts. Most people get use to it and they do not hear it after awhile. Hope this helps

This website has a picture of the devices.

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