Prior to the dawn of 2020, few of us would have heard of coronavirus. We might have seen a speculative news story around the turn of the year, a narrative describing a mysterious new virus...
The provision of oxygen – and its supply chain – has been at the forefront of the fight against Covid-19. Yet it has always been one of the most important, life-saving gases used in medicine,...
Having already established the significance of supplemental oxygen from page 32, here we delve into one of the means of delivering that oxygen – CPAP. It’s been used as one of a number of means...
Amidst all of the headlines surrounding both Covid-19 and the role of oxygen in the treatment of patients, gasworld reported in April how a Louisiana-based hospital had been using Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) to treat...
When the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic began to take hold, businesses across the globe confronted how this would impact their products and services. Luxfer – one of the world’s most trusted producers of high-pressure...
If cryogenic-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is being hailed as a game-changer in long-term medical research and increasing the capabilities of those trying to make breakthroughs in diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, cancers and malaria, then it...
The Covid-19 pandemic has only underlined the increasing importance of medical gas production around the world. Even before the recent global emergency, the market for medical gases was showing a steady compound annual growth rate...
By the end of June (2020), the World health Organisation (WHO) had issued a warning that hospitals were facing a shortage of oxygen concentrators in the face of a Covid-19 pandemic that continued to unfold...
In the hospital or at home, medical oxygen can be a life saver. During the coronavirus pandemic, millions of Covid-19 patients worldwide have been administered with medicinal oxygen to support their recovery. In the right...
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