Medical Gas Innovation in Healthcare
Humans use carbon dioxide in many different ways. The most familiar example is its use in soft drinks and beer, to make them fizzy. Carbon dioxide released by baking powder or yeast makes cake batter rise. Some fire extinguishers use carbon dioxide because it is denser than air. Carbon dioxide can blanket a fire, because of its heaviness. It prevents oxygen from getting to the fire and as a result, the burning material is deprived of the oxygen it needs to continue burning.
Carbon dioxide is also used in a technology called supercritical fluid extraction that is used to decaffeinate coffee. The solid form of carbon dioxide, commonly known as Dry Ice, is used in theatres to create stage fogs and make things like "magic potions" bubble. Carbon Dioxide starts to get highlight in the modern Health science as well by its remarkable effect on the Human Body. Medical gases have recently been regulated as pharmaceutical substances. The first FDA approval and a
Nobel Prize were awarded to NO (Nitric Oxide) gas, which was “Molecule of the Year” in 1992 of the scientific journal Science
Gas-enabled medical innovations will provide significant benefits in diagnostic, prophylactic and therapeutic procedures because:
“We certainly feel very strongly that medical gases are a very important component of
how we think about Health Care for the future.” -Robert K. Crone, MD, President and
CEO Harvard Medical International (USA)