What is oxygen?
oxygen treatment is therapy or procedure used to supply oxygen to the body. It is often used for people who have chronic pulmonary conditions that make it difficult to adequate the amount of oxygen. It is sometimes used in the treatment of short -term or acute diseases that caused patients without sufficient oxygen intake. Less frequently, oxygen treatment is used to treat wounds.
When a person breathes air, his body gets oxygen that needs for normal body function. The lungs of a healthy person give the amount of oxygen that his body needs into his blood. If a person is sick or cannot get enough oxygen for some other reason, usually feels tired, less alert and short before breath. Oxygen treatment can help ensure the oxygen that the body needs, release symptoms and even prolong life, in some cases.
oxygen treatment is used in hospitals, for emergency medical treatment on the way to the hospital and in home therapy. For example, a patientNT with a pneumoniy stay in the hospital may have oxygen treatment or emergency medical staff may administer oxygen on the way to the hospital to a patient. At home, a patient with chronic lung disease can be regularly treated with oxygen.
Sometimes oxygen treatment is supplied through a tube called nasal cannula, which has the ends inserted in the nose of the patient. Special facial masks can be used to supply oxygen. Various types of masks are used for oxygen treatment, but usually cover the patient's nose and mouth and have a tube through which oxygen flows. The type of device used to supply oxygen may depend on a number of factors, including whether the patient can breathe alone, whether high or low oxygen flow is required and oxygen concentration should be supplied.
in preparation for the use of oxygen, oxygen can be stored in its liquid form in chilled tanks. When using the liquid is converted into a gaseousthe form that the user can breathe. Sometimes oxygen is stored in a gas cylinder in the form of compressed gas. Gas cylinders provide constant oxygen flow and can be equipped with devices that regulate the flow, and release oxygen only when the patient inaches. Oxygen can also be supplied through oxygen concentrators that are powered by electricity, operation and storage of oxygen, so it is ready when the patient needs it.