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Are you planning to buy a portable oxygen concentrator? People who live with mutiple health issues often need oxygen treatments to help cope with their problems.People with breathing problems such as emphysema need to carry oxygen with them where ever they go to make sure they are able to breathe in times of respiratory difficulty.Often the cylinders that are used for compressed systems and liquid oxygen are large and require carefule handling and also have to be refilled quite frequently. Luckily, they can now benefit from the convenience and portable characteristics of the modern portable oxygen concentrators that are available.

Portable oxygen concentrators make use of a molecular filter, zeolite material, that takes in the available atmospheric nitrogen. The user has a constant supply of oxygen due to the fact that the entire cycle only takes 20 seconds. Nitrogen is collected in one cylinder, and then redistributed to the atmosphere, so that it can be used in the next cycle without waste.

These new oxygen concentrators are also less prone to fire hazards than their clunky predecessors that had a tendency to leak and rupture, which created a great potential for combustion and fire hazards. Most of the concentrators that are available now can be carried in a hand bag which is generally no more than 3 to 5 kilograms in weight. The portable oxygen concentrator is therefore more beneficial and convenient. Portable oxygen concentrators are also great for military use because the older tanks were more dangerous in disastrous circumstances, but the portables can safely be used for surgery under any conditions.

Portable oxygen concentrators for medical use can be very expensive to many. However,the purchase price of a concentrator is about half the cost of a year's supply of oxygen from cylinders. Servicing is also not complicated and can if necessary be carried out by the user.




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Nov 7, 2011 2:46pm
simonphillips
I am amazed each day to see the great advances we have made in medicine. Portable oxygen concentrators are a great example of what cool advances we have made. The fact that a portable oxygen concentrator can now be as small as the size of a camera is incredible. So many people are able to do much more because the oxygen concentrators are much more portable.
Nov 7, 2011 2:48pm
simonphillips
After lots of searching I found that http://www.oxygenconcentratorstore.com/ is a great place to buy online for a portable oxygen concentrator.
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