I have COPD and use an oxygen concentrator in the daytime only. Due to severe sleep apnea, I use a BiPAP machine at night which keeps my oxygen saturation at a healthy level, so I don't need supplementary oxygen at night.
I have a 50-foot tubing on the concentrator but find it really cumbersome to drag the long tubing around the house during the day. To solve this problem I've thought of getting a second length of tubing with its own cannula and routing it to the other part of the house, then swapping the two lengths of tubing at the concentrator when I move from one area to another. That would mean connecting and disconnecting the two lengths of tubing at the concentrator several times a day. But it would still be more convenient than dragging that 50-footer all around the house.
Then another solution came to my attention after a Google search. I discovered that there are inexpensive industrial valves available that would allow you to switch to output of an oxygen concentrator to either of two lengths of tubing. They look like this:
https://www.usplastic.com/catalog/item.aspx?itemid...
A short length of tubing would go from the concentrator into the bottom of the valve. Two longer lengths of tubing -- each with it's own cannula -- would be connected to the ports on the left and right. Routing the flow of oxygen to either of the long lengths of tubing would then be a simple matter of flipping the lever on the valve from one side to another.
The valve is made of PVC plastic and is not expensive.
Is there any reason why this would not work?
- Jeff