Mobility for people dependent on an external oxygen supply used to be a great limitation, but with the new portable systems they can now achieve better lifestyles.
Portable Oxygen means you can leave the home, you can travel, you can work – and all these activities do add to and provide a better quality of life.
The official classification is that mobile oxygen systems are systems that weigh less than 10 lbs, portable weigh more.
The portable oxygen systems currently available are lighter than the previous ones, but also easy to use, to move around and their oxygen supply lasts longer.
Shape is one of the areas where the new models have brought some changes.
The older, larger type of oxygen tanks have been replaced (in the portable scenario) with lighter and slimmer cylinders that make it easier to carry, move and store.
Portable and mobile oxygen systems have evolved in recent times and are therefore giving patients a better lifestyle by allowing them greater mobility.
Older portable systems were heavier and bulkier and this made them difficult to carry and store, for example in public places, but these limitations have to a certain extent been overcome with the new designs available.
Shape, weight and size are some of the areas that have changed with portable oxygen tanks due to the new designs and materials available (for example aluminum tanks, which are lighter)and this means many patients can increase their activities, both on the carrying side of things and the storage in public side – without all the problems this could cause.

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