What is the machine called that is used to help you breathe when you are released from the hospital?!


Question: What is the machine called that is used to help you breathe when you are released from the hospital.?
It is a machine that helps to prevent pneumonia.

Please let me know.
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Incentive spirometer!

I know that I did leave you any information previously, so I will now elaborate on the IS. It measures the amount of air that you inhale. If you exhale into it, it will not measure that. The IS' main job is to keep the lungs well expanded and clear. This will help to prevent atelectasis. By preventing atelectasis, you will also be preventing pneumonia.Health Question & Answer

A portable oxygen concentrator.?
http://www.inogen.net/products/

Or a portable oxygen tank, which is the older version.

Edit: A nebulizer is for administering medicine, not just breathing, but you might be right about respirator being what he's looking for.

Edit: The ball and tube thing regulates the oxygen flow.

Well, here's a blue oxygen concentrator.
http://www.portablenebs.com/concentrator...

Or a small travel version.
http://www.airsep.com/medical/freestyle....Health Question & Answer

Incentive Spirometer.

Its just a tool used to measure how much air you're breathing out and in and designed to help you completely empty/fill your lungs. :)

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Usually a nebulizer, or respirator.Health Question & Answer



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