Advice wanted on managing a long trailing oxygen tube

Brian Carpenter of the Berkshire panel has a tricky problem which he and his engineers cannot readily resolve. He asks for it to be circulated to all panels to check if the issue has been encountered and resolved before.  He writes:

We have an elderly gentleman who is on 24-hour oxygen supplied from an oxygen concentrator via a long plastic tube. The tube is about 20 yards long and just trails along the floor. As he moves about his four-roomed bungalow the tube becomes a trip hazard. This man also has poor mobility. I believe patients normally confined to bed would use this system, but for them the tubing is not an issue.

The bungalow consists of a kitchen, living room, bedroom and bathroom and is mainly carpeted, this gentleman moves between all four rooms. The generator is heavy and noisy so the client and his wife prefer to leave it in the room they aren’t using at the time, i.e. if they are in the living room the generator is in the bedroom. At night they put the generator in the kitchen because it is furthest from the bedroom, so the tube has to be long enough to reach from the kitchen to the bathroom.

I want to specify some system which will keep the tube off the floor so that the client does not have the chance to fall over the tube. Has any other REMAP panel experienced a similar problem and if so how did they resolve it, and if not then does any panel have any suggestions for a solution? It is possible to install the generator in a fixed position but the trailing length of tube would still be the major problem.

Please reply direct to Brian Carpenter of Remap Berkshire

Brian’s email address is BrianEJCarpenter@aol.com )