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Compressed Air

Air is a drug and the quality is defined by the European Pharmacopeia. It’s used in different respiratory therapies and you can produce it on site by medical compressors or by a medical air mixer. Through compressors you have medical air compressed treating the ambient air. Through the air mixer you have medical synthetic air mixing nitrogen and oxygen at high purity, kept in cryogenic tanks. The product is also supplied in high pressure cylinders.

When using medical air

Air is necessary in the healthcare sector in various circumstances:

When the patient suffers from chronic or acute respiratory failure;
to administer an anaesthetic, as a carrier gas;
as a drug carrier in nebuliser therapy;
when a patient in intensive care requires ventilatory support;
to supply air flows to the incubator;
to assist immunocompromised patients during transplantation or treatment of extensive burns.
for cavity insufflation during an endoscopic examination (e.g. gastroscopy).

Medical air is generally administered at atmospheric pressure, or at only slightly positive pressures when a ventilator is used. When combined with other gases, it is important that the amount of oxygen present does not fall below 21%. It may therefore be necessary to add more oxygen to the gas mixture in this case.

How to handle medical air cylinders

For the correct storage and use of medical air cylinders, certain precautions must be taken:

Cylinders must be secured vertically and protected from impact, in well-ventilated areas at a temperature below 50°C.
They must be handled with clean hands, free from grease or oil (as these can spontaneously ignite on contact with oxygen).