Tips for managing nigh time oxygen

Hi Rose, and welcome! I see you are a new member here, having joined today, earlier this afternoon. We are glad to see you already engaging with the community through this, your first post.
We also appreciate your post and question - it's a good one! The length of tubing that one may need at night will generally be based on the distance the oxygen source (cylinder or oxygen concentrator), is from the bed and the patient.
The tubing length should be long enough to permit the patient's delivery device (nasal cannula or mask), to fit comfortably and remain in place throughout the night. Care should also be taken (in terms of draping the oxygen supply tubing), to make certain it cannot coil or wrap around one's neck or body.
I do hope this brief response provided you with information that you find to be practically useful.
Should you have more concerns, please feel free to post them here.
All the best,
Leon (site moderator COPD.net)

HI, well to answer your question for me, I bring my hose in from another room, run the hose through the open door and have a book placed between the door and the hose, thus keeping my hose out of the center of the floor / doorway. Then across to the foot of my queen size bed, pull it so it is comfortably on, then a little slack between my chest and waist, then give it another tug so I have slack between my knees and foot of the bed. This gives me plenty of hose to side sleep from side to side or even on my stomach with no pulling or slipping off the bed. Yes, it tends to end up once a week around my neck, but no coking or worries that way, I don't even know until I go to remove it when I get up and find out its wrapped. There is always enough slack at the compressor location, laying mostly flat on the floor so no worries of tripping if I or my hubby get up to go the bathroom, he's nowhere near it and free when he gets up for his coffee of any lines in his path to the kitchen. I have to cross it once at the foot of the bed area. Hope this help gives you an idea of what you might need. Good luck... trial and era sometimes is the best way.