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Medical Oxygen



Medical oxygen is one that is used for treatment in hospitals, and it is considered on par with a drug or a pharmaceutical product.

Medical oxygen is the oxygen supplied to clinics, nursing homes and at times straight forwardly to a patient. 

Medicinal oxygen is supplied in portable liquid cylinders which have capacity of roughly twenty eight times the limit of normal cylinder utilized for liquid oxygen.

To collect pure oxygen, a special technique is deployed to separate oxygen from the atmosphere, which leads to separation and distillation of atmospheric air.

Once the oxygen is collected, it is inspected and packaged into different grades. These grades are then divided into several categories such as welding oxygen, aviation breathing oxygen, research grade oxygen and medical oxygen.


Medical oxygen  uses

  • Provide a basis for virtually all modern anaesthetic techniques
  • Restore tissue oxygen tension by improving oxygen availability in a wide range of conditions such as shock, severe hemorrhage, carbon monoxide poisoning, major trauma, cardiac/respiratory arrest
  • Provide life support for artificially ventilated patients
  • Aid cardiovascular stability 
 Why medical oxygen or oxygen therapy is needed by Covid 19 Patients?

During Covid-19, the requirement of medical oxygen is enhanced.

Covid-19,  primarily infects the lungs in the affected individuals and in severe cases, causes death due to Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) and pneumonia.

As Covid induces shortage of oxygen in the body due to its impact on lungs, patients are immediately shifted into oxygen therapy or put on ventilators, in critical cases, to keep their vital functions active. Oxygen acts as a life-saver for Covid patients.

How much oxygen is required for a Covid patient?

A single Covid 19 patient on high flow nasal cannula (HFNC) uses over 86,000 litres of oxygen per day.


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