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Originally Posted by doctom54
A really really bad idea. CPAP and BiPAP and Nebulizers all aerosolize the COVID-19 and make it much more transmittable. That is exactly what happened in WA state at the LTC facility.
O2 concentrators are fine.
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That incident in WA I recall reading about. I would think that someone using an Albuterol nebulizer as a maint med could find an order to self-quarantine putting them between a rock & hard place. I suppose since the entire household comes under the quarantine it would be moot, but vigorous dispersion of the virus (if positive) while using a nebulizer can't be a good thing anywhere.
Further, our family doc & the wife's RT's advise against folks arbitrarily turning up their O2 concentrators due to potential "O2 flooding" if a person is a CO2 retainer, as I imagine many with COPD are. Leave this shit to the pro's; that's why RT's and Pulmo specialists get the big bucks, no?