Gases used in healthcare

Information for healthcare professionals.

Linde Healthcare is committed to quality care and patient safety, supported by pharmaceutical and medical device regulations and standards, from the selection of raw materials through production to the administration of the gases.

Linde Healthcare has pioneered medical gas products for many years

We are committed to working with healthcare providers and regulatory authorities to promote the best practice use of our products. We stay aligned with clinical progress and continue to design and redesign solutions that meet the unique needs of healthcare professionals and patients. We’ll support you in every aspect of the delivery and use of medical gases, including logistics, safety systems, technical solutions, and service as well as training.

Medical Gases

Latvijas zāļu reģistrs:
● CONOXIA (gas)
● CONOXIA (liquid)
Medicinal oxygen is widely used in every healthcare setting, with applications from anaesthesia to inhalation therapy.

Latvijas zāļu reģistrs:
● NIONTIX Medicinal nitrous oxide has played an important role in anaesthesia over many years.

Latvijas zāļu reģistrs:
● ENTONEX
With fast onset and offset for analgesia or sedation, medicinal nitrous oxide/oxygen mixture is used throughout hospitals and clinics.

Latvijas zāļu reģistrs:
● AIRAPY

A reliable supply of medicinal air is essential in hospitals, especially in the treatment of respiratory diseases.

The therapeutic use of inhaled nitric oxide is based on its ability to achieve potent and sustained pulmonary vasodilation, without significantly decreasing systemic vascular tone.
Linde Healthcare has developed a complete solution, INOmax® Therapy, for the delivery of inhaled nitric oxide. Our solution integrates a dedicated system for administration, gas calibration, treatment recording, customer training and service support to ensure the most effective results with maximum patient safety. The delivery device, INOvent®, fits every sort of ventilatory support mode and enables constant monitoring of delivered nitric oxide, oxygen and nitrogen dioxide.
In conjunction with ventilatory support and other appropriate agents, INOmax is indicated for the treatment of newborns ≥ 34 weeks gestation with hypoxic respiratory failure associated with clinical or echocardiographic evidence of pulmonary hypertension, in order to improve oxygenation and to reduce the need for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.



Calibration Gases

Calibration gases are essential to ensure the accuracy of the medical devices that are a crucial part of modern medical care.
Essential medical devices such as blood gas analysers require regular calibration to ensure continuing high levels of reliability and accuracy, and therefore accurate diagnoses and appropriate treatment for patients.
Supporting this important aspect of the operation of medical devices, Linde Healthcare provides calibration gas mixtures according to the specifications of each device manufacturer.


HBO – Hyperbaric Oxygen

HBO is an accepted treatment for decompression sickness. HBO means that the patient is given pure oxygen at an air pressure that is increased to 2 to 3 times normal air pressure. This treatment is given in hyperbaric chambers which are available at a number of special clinics. By giving such treatment, it is possible to increase oxygenation in the tissues to around 10 times higher values than when air is breathed at normal air pressure.  The treatment is used in various conditions when good oxygenation is to be achieved out in the tissues and can also be used to get rid of carbon monoxide from the blood more quickly in carbon monoxide poisoning and in decompression sickness when too rapid ascent has led to nitrogen being dissolved in the body and needing to be eliminated. 

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Lung Test Gases

Lung Test Gases are a key component when assessing lung function and cardiac output.
Lung Test Gases consist of gas mixtures containing a tracer gas. During the test, the exhaled gas is analysed and differences in the concentration of the tracer gas can be used to measure pulmonary function or lung blood flow. When used in conjunction with diagnostic equipment, these gas mixtures measure different functions of the lungs to help in assessing patients with serious lung disorders such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or interstitial lung disease.
A typical lung function gas comprises a mixture of carbon monoxide and helium with the balance being oxygen and nitrogen. The carbon monoxide is used to test the transfer functionality of the lungs and helium helps to determine lung volume.


Carbon Dioxide (Medical Device)

Carbon dioxide is used as an insufflation gas and as a cooling agent.
Carbon Dioxide(Medical Device) has various medical purposes. It can be used as an insufflation gas for minimal invasive surgery (laparoscopy, endoscopy, and arthroscopy) to enlarge and stabilize body cavities for better visibility of the surgical field. Also, in its liquid phase, it can be used to provide temperatures down to -76° C, for cryotherapy or for local analgesia by external application onto the skin surface.
Other medical applications include transient respiratory stimulation and encouragement of deep breathing and coughing to prevent or treat atelectasis.






Nitrogen

Nitrogen (Medical device) is currently not available. For additional information please contact us by calling or e-mailing.
Nitrogen has various medical uses, especially in liquid form when it provides temperatures as low as -196°C.


Helium/Oxygen Mixture

The range of uses of Helium/Oxygen Mixture have expanded considerably, and most uses depend on its low density. Helium/oxygen mixture may assist the flow of oxygen in the airway for patients with severely obstructed airways in conditions such as upper airway obstruction, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), bronchiolitis and croup. Patients with these conditions may suffer a range of symptoms including breathlessness, below-normal oxygen content in the arterial blood and eventually a weakening of the respiratory muscles due to exhaustion. Helium/oxygen mixture may reduce these effects, making it easier for the patient to breathe, and as it will reduce work of breathing, help to prevent respiratory failure.




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