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NEBULIZER

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  NEBULIZER Nebuliser is an important piece of biomedical equipment that looks tiny, compact, and adorable but has the potential to save a lot of lives. This device comes in handy for people who have respiratory problems like difficulty in breathing etc. This article is about some important facts regarding this fascinating piece of novelty. Children of small ages (say 1-3) do not have properly developed digestive systems. Hence the parents will grind the food and feed it to them so that they can ingest it properly. So this grinding is done for those who cannot ingest food normally. Similarly, the nebulizer helps those who cannot take medicines normally. WHAT IS AN NEBULISER?           There are several ways to deliver medicine to the lungs such as inhalers. Nebulizers are another type of drug delivery device that turns the medicine into a fine mist that is breathed in. nebulizers are used to treat a variety of lung problems, such as wheezing and chest tight...

Oxygen concentrator

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  OXYGEN CONCENTRATOR   The entire world is currently dwindling due to the COVID pandemic. The second wave of COVID hit hard in India where a lot of patients needed external oxygen for their survival. As a result, there was a deprivation of oxygen concentrators in many hospitals all over the nation. Also, other nations had started to donate/export the oxygen concentrators to India. A lot of fuzz has occurred in this pandemic related to oxygen concentrators. So, it would be essential to know some trivial facts about this life-saving piece of medical equipment. WHAT IS AN OXYGEN CONCENTRATOR? An oxygen concentrator is a device that concentrates the oxygen from a gas supply by selectively removing nitrogen to supply an oxygen-enriched product gas stream.  An oxygen concentrator provides supplemental or extra oxygen to a patient with breathing issues. The device consists of a compressor, sieve bed filter, oxygen tank, pressure value, and a nasal cannula (or an oxygen mask). L...