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Welcome to OxygenWorldwide - the world's leading specialist provider of medical and portable oxygen solutions. We fully understand the oxygen world can be a minefield, and can cause confusion. There is always a fully trained advisor available 24/7 if you have any queries or questions; just contact our team on info@oxgenworldwide.com
Recognised globally as a world-leading company in portable concentrators, we offer nothing less than professionalism at the highest standard. Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, so we are always available to help you with any questions or queries you may have.
Kabba is taking out another loan on Kiva
Kabba is taking out another loan on Kiva - OxygenWorldwide help third world people to grow their own businesses. This is an update on ourr loan to Kabba in Sierra Leone. We wanted to let you know that Kabba has another loan posted on Kiva! Here's the description of their new loan: This is 52-year-old Kabba. He is married, and has four children aged 23, 20, 16 and 14. He has one additional dependent, who lives with him and his wife. In 1997, Kabba established his muslim caps and beads business. He began his business to enable him to solve his domestic problem. His business is located in the city center and his main customers are Muslim men and women. Working 7 days a week and 10 hours a day, he earns about Le 650,000 every month from this business. He would like a loan in the amount of Le 4,000,000. Kabba has already received and successfully repaid three loans, and now requires a new loan in order to buy dozens of Muslims caps (Le 2,500,000) and dozens of Muslims beads (Le 1,500,000). He hopes that this loan shall increase his stock level and hence his additional income level. In the future, Kabba plans to complete his construction of his house, to educate his children and to rent a shop. He thanks you for your support. You can see Kabba's new loan by visiting http://www.kiva.org/lend/593927?_te=rlnol. The Association for Rural Development (ARD) is one of the leading microfinance institutions in Sierra Leone. Established in 1989, ARD has offered individual and group loans to support small-scale businesses across the country for two decades. You can learn more about ARD on its partner profile page, support the organization and its staff by joining the ARD lending team, or lend to another one of its borrowers currently raising funds on Kiva. Additional notes from Kiva: 1. This update was posted from Sierra Leone by Kiva's Field Partner, Association for Rural Development (ARD). If you appreciate this update, please consider supporting another entrepreneur listed by this Field Partner. 2. If this journal entry is in a foreign language, you can use an online translator such as Google Translator 3. Also, you can recommend or comment on this journal. 4. You can browse and search through all of the updates to loans in your portfolio on the Updates Tab. 5. And finally, if you do not wish to receive these emails, you can disable them in your account email preferences. Thanks for lending to the world's working poor on Kiva! Best Wishes, The Kiva Team |
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Top 10 European travel destinations for 2013
Porto & Douro Valley
The Yeatman is Porto’s finest hotel, and its Michelin-starred restaurant is well worth a visit even if you don’t stay the night.
Rooftops of Porto and the Douro River. Photo by Dmitry Shakin / Getty Images.
Budapest, Hungary
Szimpla Kert is the granddaddy of the garden bars and one of the best, now winterized to be open year-round.
The Széchenyi Baths on a summer day in Budapest, Hungary. Photo by Ellen Rooney / Getty Images.
Northern Iceland
Fancy a peek at a puffin? On the island of Grimsey, Iceland’s only true piece of the Artctic Circle, birds outnumber people 1000 to one. Divers can swim with seabirds, watching guillemots hunting for food deep in the crystal waters.
Fire and Ice – Riders on the frozen Myvatn Lake. Photo by Reinhard Pantke / Getty Images.
Cinque Terre, Italy
The best way to get around the Cinque Terre is with the Cinque Terre card available at all of the local train stations, which gives you unlimited use of the walking paths, electric village buses, the elevator in Riomaggiore and cultural exhibitions (one/two days €5/9).
Colourful Riomaggiore, Cinque Terre. Photo by Sergio Del Rosso / Getty Images.
Moravia, Czech Republic
To pedal your way through Moravian wine country, follow the Mikulov Wine Trail. The Mikulov tourist office (www.mikulov.cz/tourism) can help steer you to a one-day ride that takes in the nearby chateaux at Valtice and Lednice, stopping at small local vineyards along the way.
Elderflower wine, Mikulov, Moravia, Czech Republic. Photo by Paul Harris / Getty Images.
Bern, Switzerland
Get a taste of Bern’s locavore leanings at the popular Lötschberg AOC (www.loetschberg-aoc.ch), with an all-Swiss wine and beer list, local cheese specialities and seasonal produce.
Bern’s Old Town and the Aare River. Izzet Keribar / Getty Images.
Marseille, France
For a true bouillabaisse experience, head to Le Rhul for a classic approach or L’Epuisette for a swank Michelin-starred experience; reserve in advance for both.
Marseille’s Vieux Port. Photo by Alexandre Fundone / Getty Images.
Croatia
To experience Zagreb like a local, don’t miss Saturday morning špica, the coffee-drinking and people watching ritual that is the peak of the weekly social calendar.
Plitvice Lakes National Park. Photo by Kelly Cheng / Getty Images.
Northern Ireland
In October, Derry/Londonderry dusts off the skeletons and puts on the spooky makeup for the annual Halloween Carnival, Ireland’s biggest street party.
Dawn on the Giant’s Causeway. Photo by Riccardo Spila / Getty Images.
Copenhagen, Denmark
The strikingly modern Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in nearby Humelbæk is worth the side trip even if you’re not a passionate fan of modern art. Inside find Picasso, Giacometti and an entire wing for kids; outside find Henry Moore, Alexander Calder and artfully framed views across the water to Sweden.
City bikers in Copenhagen. Photo by Dag Sundberg / Getty Images.
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Preparation is the key and will make your travels more enjoyable
For those with diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema or chronic bronchitis, supplemental medical oxygen is a necessity. If you have ever tried to travel with supplemental oxygen, you know how difficult this can be. Being prepared, and knowing how to travel safely with oxygen and where to obtain oxygen at your final destination is vital.
Always check with your doctor and your oxygen company before traveling.
Safety is a very important issue when traveling by car, as an oxygen tank can become a dangerous projectile in an accident. It is crucial to secure the unit. Your oxygen company can provide you with information about safe ways to store and protect your particular oxygen unit in a vehicle.
Portable oxygen concentrators — which form oxygen by extracting and separating it from the surrounding air, and deliver it through a nasal cannula — may be stored in any position, but they should be padded to protect them from impact.
Small cylinder tanks holding compressed oxygen in gas form can also be stowed in any position, but the valve on top and the liter flow knob must be protected from collision through use of a seatbelt, webbing or other such device.
All unit types should be protected from heat, so they should not be stored in a car’s trunk, where extreme heat build-up can occur. In case of a fire, additional oxygen causes a fire to burn more rapidly, so always keep a car window open at least a crack to prevent the accumulation of more than the normal amount of oxygen. When refilling oxygen tanks at an outdoor facility, always remove the tanks from your car and place them in a well-ventilated area.
Travel by airplane also takes a good amount of research and preparation. No airline will allow you to bring aboard your own oxygen cylinder, but many airlines have medical oxygen cylinders available for a fee for use on their planes, such as Alaska Airlines, British Airways, Continental, Delta and Japan Airlines. The oxygen containers used on airplanes vary from airline to airline.
You must make arrangements to provide your own oxygen to and from the airplane. It is helpful to have someone take you to the airport and allow him or her to take your tank home.
Many airlines, such as Alaska Airlines, Delta, Frontier and Southwest, now allow travelers to bring aboard their own portable oxygen concentrators, but the airlines permit only the brands Inogen One or AirSep LifeStyle.
You must have enough fully charged batteries to last the entire flight and to allow for possible delays, as electricity will not be provided on the airplane. The way in which extra batteries must be stored varies from airline to airline. Contact your airline to obtain their regulations for battery storage.
You will also need to contact your airline to learn their requirements for advance notification of your need for medical oxygen. Many airlines will need a letter from your physician in advance of the flight, so they can contact him or her to verify liter flow. The letter should have a date of no more than one year prior to the flight (some airlines require a letter dated no more than 10 days prior to the flight), stating the amount of oxygen needed and the flow rate, adjusted to cabin pressure.
It is important to make advance arrangements for the delivery of oxygen to the airport of your destination. Almost all airlines require a 48-hour advance notice for domestic flights, and airlines can require up to 72 hours advance notice for international travel.
Many cruise lines allow you to bring your own oxygen, and they allow all types. Some will accept deliveries from medical-supply companies, while others only allow certain companies to deliver. You will need to contact the customer service department of the cruise line for the regulations on each ship.
When traveling by train, contact the customer service department to obtain regulations about traveling with medical oxygen.
In Europe, the rules and regulations for oxygen use on Eurail vary from country to country. There is no one place to find the information for a trip that takes you from country to country. Your best bet is to contact the customer service department of the railroad in each country you will be traveling through. You can find this information on the Eurail Website.
Being well prepared will make your travels much more enjoyable.
Happy travels!
OxygenWorldwide Reveals Challenging Design of Medical Oxygen Vest
OxygenWorldwide.com has revealed its design for a Medical Oxygen Vest ( M.O.V.) for those medical oxygen users who want or need to be exeptional mobile like e.g. children or golfplayers.
OxygenWorldwide, market leader in the medical oxygen travel branch for 20 years challenges with its Medical Oxygen Vest (M.O.V.) a fast growing but rather conservative market when it comes to the design of portable oxygen equipment.
It shows that, in the past few years a unilateral design/development of portable oxygen concentrators (POC’s) has taken place. The medical oxygen equipment industry has put it’s emphasis mainly on making the units smaller and lighter, says Rutger Berntsen, founder and marketing director of OxygenWorldwide . OxygenWorldwide is worlds largest company that arranges medical oxygen for travellers in more than 100 countries and thousands of holiday destinations. Over the past 5-6 years the market shifted from renting more traditional stationary oxygen equipment like cylinders, concentrators or liquid oxygen with a stroller to portable devices. Having clients travelling with these POC’s every day Berntsen and his colleagues were confronted with the various problems that arise using this particular equipment. Searching for a solution was a natural progression.
The Medical Oxygen Vest is a body warmer type of vest that contains the necessary equipment to provide medical oxygen to the wearer. The vest would be ideal for oxygen users who require a constant supply of medical oxygen and the life line of being able to be mobile and freely move around without the constraints of a more conventional oxygen device. The M.O.V is designed for e.g. young children or active sport users to give the ability to move around more freely such as going to play a game of golf or running around in the playground.
A portable oxygen concentrator (POC) is normally carried around by means of a shoulder strap. This is not convenient when one has to make movements beyond normal walking. The main advantage of the M.O.V. is that the weight of the equipment in the vest is equally divided over two sides located under the arm pits. The fact that the equipment is ‘concealed’ inside the vest could take away the burden of having to carry around a medical device, which to many medical oxygen users indicates the appearance that you are in fact a ‘patient’. Flexible solar panels are placed on the chest and back of the vest to provide (at this stage) power to the display panel. To make the system fully operational the batteries should (at this stage) be charged by plugging into a AC outlet. POC developers interested in learning more about de M.O.V. should contact Rutger Berntsen at + 34 96.688.28.73 Or view the video online at (www.oxygenworldwide.com/mov-design).
About OxygenWorldwide.
OxygenWorldwide is worldleader when it comes to arranging medical oxygen for travellers. (www.oxygenworldwide.com)
OxygenWorldwide is based in Spain but operates in more than 100 countries and thousands of holiday destinations. All staff members speak a minimum of 5 languages and provide a 24/7 telephone service.
Rutger Berntsen, Marketing director.
OxygenWorldwide s.l.
rutgerbernsten (at) oxygenworldwide (dot) com
Girl Who Needed Judge's Order To Be On Transplant List, To Get New Lung
People who have COPD can be candidates for lung transplants. Transplants can be recommended for people who have very severe symptoms, have difficulty breathing most of the time or have no relief of symptoms from medical therapy.
Lung transplantation involves giving a person with COPD a lung from a person who has recently died. A single-lung transplant is done more often than a double-lung transplant, and both can be effective methods to improve breathing for people with COPD.
Qualifications for surgery
Because there are not always enough organs donated, not everyone can qualify for or receive a lung transplant. To qualify, a person must:
- have severe COPD
- be under 65 years old
- have stopped smoking
- have family and friends who will help and encourage them during and after the surgery
- be physically capable of undergoing surgery, follow-up medical treatment and participation in a pulmonary rehabilitation group
- not currently have a drug or alcohol abuse problem
June 12 (Reuters) - A lung donor has been found for a 10-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis who only became eligible for an adult organ transplant because of a judge's order, her mother said on Wednesday.
Sarah Murnaghan, who had been kept off an adult organ transplant list due to an age restriction prior to the judge's ruling, was being prepped for surgery in an operating room at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, her mother, Janet Murnaghan, wrote on Facebook.
"Sarah got THE CALL," she wrote. "Please pray for Sarah's donor, her HERO, who has given her the gift of life. Today their family has experienced a tremendous loss, may God grant them a peace that surpasses understanding.
"Today is the start of Sarah's new beginning and new life!" she wrote.
The girl's family sued to prevent the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from enforcing a policy that prevents children under age 12 from getting adult lung transplants regardless of how ill they are.
U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson granted the family a 10-day temporary restraining order on June 5.
U.S. Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, who has championed the girl's cause, said in a statement that he was deeply grateful to the unidentified organ donor and his or her family.
"Now that a suitable donor has been found, a prayer would help, too - a prayer Sarah's body accepts the new organ the way doctors believe it can," he said.
"The judge gave Sarah a chance to receive a new lung," he said. "Now the surgical team at CHOP is giving her a chance at life."
A spokeswoman for Children's Hospital said the hospital was not releasing any details in order to protect patient privacy.
People with COPD also need help when travelling, going on holiday and visit OxygenWorldwide for assistance when planning your future travels https://www.oxygenworldwide.com/en/services.html.
Travel with oxygen
TRAVEL WITH OXYGENTraveling with oxygen can be very intimidating but with proper planning it can be accomplished comfortably and safely. You don't have to give up the adventure of travel. You just have to make your arrangements in advance and be willing to take the extra time to confirm details prior to your trip.
If you have COPD and are planning a trip for treatment, business or pleasure, speak to our team or view more useful information and client testimonials www.oxygenworldwide.com |
Wiki Know-how for Oxygen and travel
Oxygen was known to be the only element that supports respiration as early as 1800 and was first used in the medical field in 1810. However, it took about 150 years for the gas to be used throughout medicine. In the early to mid 20th century oxygen therapy became rational and scientific, and today modern medicine could not be practiced without the support that oxygen supplies.
Medical oxygen is used to:
- provide a basis for virtually all modern anaesthetic techniques
- restore tissue oxygen tension by improving oxygen availability in a wide range of conditions such as COPD, cyanosis, shock, severe hemorrhage, carbon monoxide poisoning, major trauma, cardiac/respiratory arrest
- aid resuscitation
- provide life support for artificially ventilated patients
- reduce incidence of surgical wound infection
- aid cardiovascular stability
Read our useful Wiki guide for all the information and explanations to do with travelling with medical oxygen with OxygenWorldwide.
Oxygen Service
Why do you need oxygen?
Your Healthcare Professional has ordered oxygen for you. This may be because the oxygen in your blood is low and you need more oxygen than is available from room air alone.
Your Healthcare Professional will have assessed you, deciding how much additional oxygen your body requires. The Healthcare Professional also decides what flow rate of oxygen and how many hours per day you will need to use it.
Your oxygen equipment has been provided to give you increased independence for activities in and out of your home.
When using oxygen away from your home, you should continue to observe all the safety precautions previously identified.
In particular, you should ensure that:
- No one should adjust or tamper with the equipment
- The safety risk to people around you is minimised
It is possible to transport your oxygen on public transport but there are no fixed national guidelines as to what trains, coaches, buses and taxis will allow.
Portable oxygen can be used on London Underground.
The oxygen equipment should only be used:
- As described in the user manual
- In a carrying bag when supplied
- With the delivery tubing as short as possible
Always ensure that:
- Your equipment is secure while the vehicle is moving
- The valve of the oxygen equipment is securely closed, when not in use
When using the equipment on public transport:
- DO NOT leave the equipment unattended
- DO NOT leave the cannula or mask on the seat or near other absorbent materials when not in use
- DO NOT use a mobile phone
- DO NOT allow children to tamper with the equipment
- DO NOT use a humidifier
- DO NOT cover the equipment with any clothing, bags or other material
Contacter
We have a 24 hour Freephone helpline to address any of your enquiries.
Please contact us on info@oxygenworldwide.com or at www.oxygenworldwide.com
