Medical Gases

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We provide our customers with a range of medical gases that contribute to:

• Faster recovery of patients.
• Better quality of life for homecare patients.
• Advancement of medical technology.

Our medical gases are subject to the same manufacturing and handling requirements as medical drugs so that users and patients are guaranteed quality and safety

Medical oxygen

Oxygen is well-known as the only element that supports respiration, and medicine could not be practiced without the support that oxygen provides.

Medical oxygen can be used to provide a basis for virtually all modern anaesthetic techniques and restore tissue oxygen tension by improving oxygen availability in a wide range of conditions. It is also used widely to aid in resuscitation and provide life support in artificial ventilation.

Nitrous oxide

Nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, is predominately used as a background anaesthetic and is supplemented with either a potent volatile agent or an intravenous anaesthetic. When used in this way, it allows a much lower dosage of the other anaesthetic agents and faster induction times.

Heliox

Heliox is the common name for a mixture of helium and oxygen. BOC’s Heliox is offered in a mixture of 79% helium and 21% oxygen. Helium is one of the lightest chemical elements and Heliox mixtures are typically three times less dense than air making Heliox easier to breathe.

Entonox

Entonox is a 50:50 mix of nitrous oxide and oxygen and imparts the benefits of oxygen with the pain relief of the nitrous oxide without producing unconsciousness. Entonox is a very potent analgesic with a very rapid onset of action and rapid elimination from the body.

Medical air

Medical air is a mixture of approximately 21% oxygen, 78% nitrogen and other inert gases.

Medical carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide is an essential constituent of tissue fluids. Carbon dioxide is needed to supplement various anaesthetic and oxygenation mixtures under special circumstances such as cardiac by-pass and the management of renal dialysis.

BOC is now part of The Linde Group, visit Linde Gas Therapeutics (www.linde-gastherapeutics.com) for details for their offer to providers and users of heathcare.