What is the difference between an oxygen concentrator and a ventilator?
by qinqinzi on Mar 19, 2024
Many customers who don’t understand the product think that oxygen concentrators and ventilators are the same thing. But I want to say that although both can help solve breathing problems, there are still certain differences in nature.
The working principles and differences between the two machines：
Ventilator: A device that can replace or improve human breathing, increase lung ventilation, improve respiratory function, and reduce the consumption of breathing work.
Oxygen generator: A machine used to extract high-concentration pure oxygen. It compresses and purifies the air, produces oxygen, and delivers it to the patient after purification.
Differences in functions & functions
Ventilator: Used for patients with lung failure or airway obstruction that prevents them from breathing normally. It assists or controls the inhalation and exhalation functions of the human body and helps patients complete the breathing process of exhalation and inhalation.
Oxygen concentrator: suitable for patients with respiratory diseases, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and plateau hypoxia. Mainly solves the symptoms of hypoxia in patients.
Generally speaking, the ventilator solves the patient's ventilation problem, and the oxygen concentrator solves the patient's low blood oxygen saturation problem.
