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GASES
:: Medical
Our extensive line of medical gases is just one aspect of the quality,
reliability and technological innovation you can expect from USW. The
majority of USW's production and customer service facilities have
earned International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9002
certification, ensuring product and service consistency.
Respiratory
Therapy Gases
- Therapy gases
- Diagnostic gases
- Anesthetic gases - Nitrous oxide/calibration
mixtures
- Blood gas mixtures
- Laser gas mixtures (in-patient and out-patient
surgery)
- Excimer
- Molecular
- Surgical
- Helium-neon
- Lung
diffusion gas mixtures
- Short-
and long-term life support and care
- Oxygen
- Helium-oxygen
mixtures
- Computed
Tomography (CT) scanning mixtures
Oxygen
USW has long
been a premier supplier of pure oxygen
and bulk storage equipment to medical facilities. Beyond supplying
bulk oxygen, USW also:
- Designs and installs safe, smoothly functioning
bulk liquid oxygen storage systems for efficient supply.
- Familiarizes you and your staff with sometimes
confusing federal, state, and local regulatory codes governing
oxygen supply installations.
- Provides minimum 24-hour reserve supplies of
bulk oxygen.
- Installs USW's computerized remote monitoring
system.
- Ensures that your oxygen supplies are not
interrupted during supplier changeover or a new bulk storage
installation.
- For homecare assistance, USW provides three
systems which deliver oxygen: concentrators, compressed gas
systems, and liquid systems.
Laboratory
Gases
- Anaerobic and aerobic gas mixtures
- Instrument gases
- Clinical stable isotopic gases
- Carbon
monoxide-neon
- Carbon
monoxide-acetylene-helium
- Carbon
monoxide-helium-oxygen
- Carbon
monoxide-acetylene-helium-oxygen
- Pure
gases
- Acetylene
- Air
- Argon
- Carbon
dioxide
- Helium
- Hydrogen
- Methane
- Nitrogen
- Oxygen
- Propane
Sterilant Gases
USW supplies ethylene
oxide-based sterilant
gases. These gases are used in the sterilization of a
variety of medical devices, surgical equipment, and similar materials
used in the healthcare industry. Our Specialty Gases operations
utilizes special cylinder cleaning and inspection procedures to ensure
the purity of these products, minimizing polymer problems.
Liquid Helium
Helium is used as a component of breathing mixtures to
reduce the density of the mixture to facilitate breathing under
certain physical and physiological conditions.
In Magnetic Resonance
Imaging (MRI) machines, helium cools electromagnetic coils to super conductive
levels. This decreases the metal's ordinary resistance
to the electrical current and results in high-resolution images.
Nitrogen
Nitrogen is used as a component in many gas mixtures and
as a displacement medium for sterile equipment. It is also used as a
non-oxidizing displacement medium in pharmaceutical vials and as a
propellant in pressurized aerosol type dispensers. Nitrogen provides a
source of pneumatic pressure to power gas-operated medical devices and
as a coolant for carbon dioxide surgical lasers.
Nitrogen is also used
to freeze and preserve blood, tissue, semen and other biological
specimens and to freeze and destroy diseased tissue in cryosurgery and
dermatology. It may also be used to pre-cool or insulate Magnetic
Resonance Imaging (MRI) machines which conserves helium.
Carbon Dioxide
Carbon dioxide is used for close-to-physiologic atmospheres for
the operation of artificial organs and in cryosurgery with
insufflators during lapriscopic surgery. Carbon dioxide is also used
as a component in a mixture of oxygen or air as a respiratory
stimulant to promote deep breathing.
Nitrous Oxide
Nitrous oxide is used as an analgesic, often in combination
with other agents for the production of anesthesia. Nitrous oxide is
also used in cryosurgery.
Medical Air
Medical air is used in respiratory therapy and humidity
treatments using nebulizers. |
