Is your medical device “easy to use”? Supplemental oxygen patients’ experiences and tradeoffs around portable oxygen concentrators and tanks

Engineering constraints on supplemental oxygen devices lead to tradeoffs for patients simply because larger and heavier devices last longer: larger tanks hold more oxygen, and the duration of use of a portable oxygen concentrator (POC) is governed by the size of its battery. Since a perfectly lightw...

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Main Authors: Marc Egeth, Naomi Cherne, Nichole Breeland, Samantha Sye, Jennifer Soosaar, Frederic Seifer, Stanislav Glezer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2025-06-01
Series:Human Factors in Healthcare
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772501425000016
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