Best of the Brand X oxygen concentrators?

March 23, 2020 7:19 AM

I'm trying to put together a little home care setup for a medically fragile friend in case of need. Note: I am a physician and will only fire up the oxygen in consultation with another doctor who knows what s/he is doing!!! I see a lot of cheap oxygen concentrators around. Has anyone actually used one of them? (The would-be patient is superstitious and refuses to just rent a good one.) Thank you for your thoughts.
posted by 8603 to Health & Fitness (2 answers total)

When my partner got super sick with pneumonia we had a used Inogen in our house for months thanks to Medicaid and it worked great. He was using it 24/7 as well, could barely walk from bedroom to living room for some of that time. It was the size of a window ac unit upright on wheels and it wasn’t portable, because we had it plugged into the wall. it ran kind of loud, but it worked great.
posted by zdravo at 2:55 PM on March 23, 2020 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Thanks, guys! I'm looking for anecdotes about the really cheap ones, $500 or so. Has anyone found a cheap one that actually works?
posted by 8603 at 3:54 PM on March 23, 2020