The portable oxygen generator – not a load of hot air

by Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Wednesday, 02 April 2008

Page 1 of 2 ! A medical gadget called the Inogen ONE is a “breakthrough” portable oxygen generator that concentrates oxygen, doing away with cumbersome liquid oxygen tanks and restoring quality of life to the ultimate form of organic technology: human beings. Anyone suffering from ‘Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease’ or COPD is usually oxygen dependent, needing some kind of oxygen therapy to alleviate symptoms, although there is, sadly, no specific cure to a range of COPD diseases. COPD is a lung disease that affects up to one in six Australians 45 or over, with the Australian Lung Foundation estimating that approximately one million Australians have some form of COPD. Astoundingly, COPD is Australia’s fifth biggest killer, and the third leading cause of disease burden, after heart disease and stroke, costing Australia $800-900m annually, with the actual economic burden likely a lot higher due to misdiagnosis of COPD, with 1,000 COPD patients occupying Australian hospital beds every day, with an average cost of $3,700 per admission (average 7.5 day stay). Lung Disease categories needing oxygen therapy include: Asthma, Chronic Airflow Limitation, Cystic Fibrosis & Paediatric Lung Disease, Lung Cancer, Lung Transplantation, Occupational Lung Disease (such as Asbestosis), Pulmonary Fibrosis/Sarcoidosis, Respiratory Infectious Diseases and Sleep Related Breathing Disorders. So there are a range of medical conditions and at least a million Australians who could benefit from a new medical gadget called the Inogen ONE. It won’t synchronise with Windows, it’s not iPhone compatible, it definitely doesn’t have a Wi-Fi connection and you can forget about USB ports. What it does is to interface directly with the human body, bypassing all forms of computing technology, to deliver life-giving oxygen to the lungs, bloodstream, body and even our own CPU: the brain. Cumbersome liquid oxygen tanks can now be a thing of the past, with the Inogen ONE a sleek back pack size portable oxygen generator, weighing just 4.4kg, giving millions of COPD affected people worldwide a new lease of life, even letting them travel freely on planes, with the FAA approving its use in 38 airlines, including Qantas. The Inogen ONE recently won the prestigious U.S. Medical Design Excellence Award, with judges calling it “a groundbreaking innovation changing the face of health care”.   Please read onto page 2 for more details. << First page <   1 2 Next page > Last page - Post your comment >>

 

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