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Supplemental Oxygen for UARS?
There is a sleep clinic in a nearby city which is prescribing supplemental oxygen (no CPAP) for UARS treatment. I know of three female patients, in their fifties with no complicating health issues, who are reporting better sleep and much more energy.
Is supplemental oxygen an accepted therapy for UARS?
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Permalink Reply by Banyon on
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JM said:
Banyon, could you PM me the sleep clinic where this is taking place?Hell no!
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Permalink Reply by JM on
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Maybe I should have been more informative. I have UARS and have not been effectively treated using apap, cpap, or dental devices. I am looking at other options and this is intriguing. I would like to research this further so I was hoping you could PM the information if you can't share it in a public forum. thanks
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Permalink Reply by RockRpsgt on
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Sorry Banyon I missed this. We use it for a wide spectrum of pts. Not sure on the heat issue, but they are not quiet. We do not keep the machines in the rooms. I also suggest that the pt's figure out a way to do the same if the need arises. It is very easy to put the concentrators at the opposite end of the house and run o2 line. I have seen many labs and users do this. if this is not possible putting the machine just outside your bedroom door is helpful.
Banyon said:Rock, Being used in general or for CPAP patients or both?
Are the generators as noisy as reported in this thread or are there new models which are reasonably quiet?
Do the generators create heat in the bedroom as reported here?
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Yep. They are. Both noisy and heat throwers. I had an older DeVilbiss 5L and then an older Invacare Platinum and both were more noisy than you would want in your bedroom whilst trying to sleep and both threw a good bit of heat.
I was just recently supplied w/a Respironics EverFlo 5L concentrator. It is smaller, quieter (but still noisier than you would want in your bedroom even if on a piece of carpet tho that would help) and it doesn't throw quite as much heat as the two older models I had.
The noise is a steady noise and I suppose could eventually gotten used to as "white noise" but I don't think so, especially if you are noise sensitive which I am not.
I keep my concentrator in the room next to our bedroom. Hubby drilled a small hole thru the wall for the tubing to fit thru. It does sit on a hardwood floor. I've just never gotten around to picking up a throw rug or carpet remnant to sit it on which would reduce the sound.
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