The Ryan Report Home Oxygen Guru – The HO2G Pen 2019 Portable Oxygen Concentrator Guide Howdy ho! Welcome to the 2019 version of our annual Portable Oxygen Concentrator (POC) Guide. Another year has gone by and still we don’t have any significant developments in terms of smaller continuous flow-capable POC devices. Manufacturers seem content for…
Editor’s Note Welcome to our annual review of Portable Oxygen Concentrators (POCs)! While we wait and wait for a smaller machine that will give us continuous flow higher than a setting of 3, Ryan has updated his data on the POCs currently on the market. Through an independent testing and consulting company, Valley Inspired Products, Ryan…
Oxygen Needs in Pulmonary Fibrosis People who have pulmonary fibrosis often need higher oxygen flow rates to maintain their oxygen saturations. Unlike obstructive lung disease, this is because the lung muscle itself is usually thick (fibrotic) and is comparable to being scarred. You need extra flow to get the oxygen across your lung to be…