What is Oxygen Therapy for Pets?

Oxygen therapy is the act of supplementing the air the pet breathes with extra oxygen. This is needed in many situations when the pet ha breathing difficulties and struggles to absorb oxygen or transporting that oxygen around the body. Increasing the amount of oxygen the pets breathes in helps counteract the decreased availability of oxygen to the body tissue due to sickness or injury.

Oxygen is vital to life and, depending on the severity of oxygen depletion, the patient may suffer cell death, organ failure, or death. Giving a patient struggling for breath an oxygen supplement can make the difference between life and death. In the critically ill, it is a vital life-saving therapy used to stabilize the pet and make them strong enough to undergo diagnostic tests.

Efficacy of Oxygen Therapy in pets

Oxygen therapy can be life-saving and is an essential treatment in many circumstances.

Oxygen therapy is a short term treatment, given in order to stabilize the patient so that a workup can be done without causing a crisis. This workup may include taking radiographs or drawing fluid off the chest so that the lungs can expand and breathing can improve. 

Oxygen Therapy Procedure in Pets

Although there are several different ways of providing oxygen therapy, they all have one thing in common, which is that it's crucial not to stress the patient. A pet that is fighting for breath could be pushed into a crisis if he struggles during administration of oxygen.

Oxygen delivery method include:

*Flow by oxygen: This is simply allowing oxygen to flow from the delivery pipe into the airspace close to the pet's nose. This may be all that's possible in an extremely stressed patient.

*Nasal catheter: A fine tube is passed into the pet's nose and oxygen delivered directly into the respiratory system

*Oxygen mask: This means holding a close fitting mask over the dog's face or muzzle.

*Oxygen chamber: The clinician may improvise a delivery chamber by fitting the dog with a cone with the wide open diameter sealed over with cling film. A tube feeds into the base of the cone, for higher oxygen concentration within the 'chamber'.

*Oxygen tent: This is a sealed chamber in which the whole dog rests and breathes in an oxygen-rich atmosphere.

DEDAKJ is the professional oxygen concentrator manufacturer and can provide the different flow rate veterinary oxygen concentrators. An Oxygen Concentrator functions by concentrating room air into high-purity oxygen gas. It is commonly used with a nasal catheter, oxygen mask, oxygen cage, chamber or tent to provide oxygen to a pet. People can choose an oxygen concentrator and do oxygen therapy at home for their pets eaily!