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Oxygen I.P.

Traditionally, used for life saving applications, oxygen has been supplied to hospitals and through bulk tank installations, or larger cylinders, where the patient is confined to the institution. More recent advances have been concerned just as much with the quality of life, rather than just the saving of life. Such quality can be enhanced if the patients can be allowed to return to their own homes, and even a more normal way of life, rather than being dependent on oxygen only available through the hospital or fixed installations.

The Production of Oxygen and its properties has been already mentioned. The Medical Oxygen is differentiated from normal Oxygen in context of Purity percentage. Relatively, higher purity grade of Oxygen is used as Medical Oxygen. Such quality can be enhanced if the patients can be allowed to return to their own homes, and even a more normal way of life, rather than being dependent on oxygen only available through the hospital or fixed installations.

A human being can survive three weeks without food, three days without water but only two breaths of air without oxygen.

No modern hospital can manage without medical oxygen. It is an essential resource: in the operating theatre during anaesthesia, and for the respiration of patients in bed in the ward, intensive care or neonatal unit.

As oxygen is essential for life, events leading to hypoxic or hypoxemic situations for the patient have to be treated immediately and carefully. Therefore, oxygen is given for treatment and/or prevention of a variety of cardiac, pulmonary and other diseases.

Application of oxygen under hyperbaric conditions (Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy - HBO) increases the amount of oxygen, which is dissolved in the blood and improves microcirculation. This therapy is, therefore, used in CO and smoke intoxication as well as in diving accidents.

Oxygen is a ubiquitous drug, which is used by a wide range of medical professionals in hospitals, by practitioners, in emergency cars and ambulances as well as in homecare.