How to choose oxygen generator and ventilator?
First, ventilator principle and applicable groups:
In modern clinical medicine, ventilator, as an effective means of artificial replacement of autonomous ventilation function, is not only suitable for respiratory failure caused by various reasons, anesthesia respiratory management during major surgery, respiratory support treatment and emergency resuscitation, but also suitable for sleep apnea in daily home scenes, home care and other situations.
The ventilator is not a simple pump into the body, but a complex and precise motor and algorithm work together to control and adjust various frequencies and pressures of the breathing mode.
Common types of home ventilators:
1, single level ventilator: suitable for sleep apnea syndrome.
2, double-level ventilator: suitable for respiratory failure, pulmonary heart disease, COPD, motor neuron disease, myasthenia and other severe respiratory disorders.
Benefits of ventilators for ordinary people:
1. Improve lung ventilation: Wearing a ventilator can improve the ventilation function of patients, help patients improve breathing efficiency, and maintain patients' breathing.
2, correct respiratory failure: Wearing a ventilator helps to reduce the burden of patients breathing, stabilize the respiratory circulation function, can deliver oxygen to patients, discharge carbon dioxide in the body, so as to correct respiratory failure.
Second, the principle of oxygen generator and use groups
Oxygen generator refers to a kind of machine that produces oxygen by various means, which can only provide high concentration of oxygen for people, and can not open the human airway, and can not assist or support breathing.
Common types: molecular sieve oxygen generator; Chemical oxygen generator; Oxygen film oxygen generator; Electronic oxygen generator.
Now most of the oxygen generators on the market are using molecular sieve or molecular film oxygen production principle, through the adsorption performance of molecular sieve, to large displacement oil-free compressor as the power, the nitrogen in the air and oxygen separation, and finally get a high concentration of oxygen.
How to choose oxygen generator:
The common household oxygen generator on the market is mainly divided into 1L, 2L, 3L, 5L, 10L, these several, in the choice of patients is best according to their own condition, under the advice of doctors or experienced staff guidance to buy
1—5L
Suitable for the elderly, pregnant women, students and other groups of daily health care
More than 5L
Generally, it is a medical machine that can be connected to a ventilator and is suitable for people with respiratory problems such as COPD
Oxygen generator suitable for the population:
Respiratory diseases; Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases; Altitude hypoxia disease; People prone to hypoxia; Other people who need oxygen therapy
Third, the difference between ventilators and oxygen generators
In general, there are the following three points:
1. They work differently
Oxygen generator is through the air compressor, molecular sieve combined with separation and extraction of oxygen in the air, and then supply to the human body, the use of nasal tube.
Ventilator is a precision equipment to assist breathing, providing pressure through motor operation, built-in chip control of air pressure, far beyond the single function of providing oxygen, generally need to use a mask or nose mask.
2. Different uses
Oxygen generator is generally suitable for mild respiratory failure patients, or COPD family oxygen therapy, and other simple aerobic conditions, such as mental workers, students, pregnant women and so on.
The ventilator can treat various respiratory failures through various modes of assisted breathing, and can be applied to patients with mild conditions such as sleep apnea.
3. Fees vary
Oxygen generator is generally in the range of thousand yuan to ten thousand yuan.
According to different types of ventilators, down to thousands of dollars, up to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Although the two principle uses are completely different, but combined use will play a 1+1>2 result. Such as COPD, rare diseases and other groups are especially suitable.
