What is the difference between a home ventilator and an oxygen concentrator? Can the two replace each other?

What is an oxygen machine? As the name implies, an oxygen machine is a machine used to produce high concentrations of oxygen. It can use molecular sieve physical adsorption and desorption technology to produce oxygen, oxygen machines are used in clinical applications, which is often referred to as oxygen therapy.
Generally speaking, the oxygen machine can relieve both physiological hypoxia and environmental hypoxia. On the one hand, it is suitable for patients with respiratory system diseases, such as bronchitis, pneumonia, bronchitis, emphysema, etc., and also for patients with cardiovascular diseases, such as heart disease, coronary heart disease, hypertension, etc. On the other hand, for people with highland hypoxia disease and prone to hypoxia, the oxygen machine is also applicable. In clinical emergency rescue, medical oxygen machines also play an important role.
Patients can directly improve the arterial blood oxygen content through oxygen inhalation, effectively relieving the symptoms of hypoxia. Oxygen therapy has the effect of relieving hypoxic symptoms in a timely manner, correcting pathological hypoxia, and reducing the possibility of diseases caused by environmental hypoxia. However, it is important to note that oxygen therapy is only an adjunct to correct pathological hypoxia; it cannot address the root cause of hypoxia.

So what is the role of the ventilator when you understand the role of the oxygen machine?
Ventilators can first be divided into two categories, non-invasive ventilators and invasive ventilators, which are divided according to different ways of connecting ventilation, and what we use in home treatment is non-invasive ventilators that ventilate through an airtight mask.
In home treatment, non-invasive ventilators are mainly used for two types of patients, one is sleep apnea patients, which can help patients open collapsed airways by providing a continuous positive pressure to improve the obstruction, thereby increasing the oxygen saturation and improving the symptoms of oxygen deprivation at night; the other type of patients are generally lung failure such as patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which can assist patients to complete the expiratory and inspiratory breathing process by setting an expiratory and inspiratory pressure to relieve the body of breathing. The other type of patients are usually patients with lung failure such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
As we mentioned above, the two have their own roles to play, and the roles they play are very different. The ventilator blows air into the body, which helps and replaces the patient's breathing, and although it is a good aid to breathing, it does not raise the oxygen level and oxygen reserves in the blood in a timely manner.
Oxygen concentrator can make up for this defect. Oxygen concentrator is like a precision sieve, sieving out the oxygen in the air, purifying it and then providing it to the patient, playing the role of improving the lack of oxygen, maintaining the body's blood oxygen saturation in a healthy state, and then improving the body's metabolic ability and immunity.
Therefore, there is no substitute for the use of these two. In the actual treatment process, it is necessary to decide whether to use them in combination according to the patient's physical condition. For patients with more serious conditions like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and heart failure, if both devices are needed, then it is best to use them in conjunction with each other scientifically to achieve the best treatment results.


Post time: Nov-17-2021

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