aerALin™:
On-site medical air quality control

With aerALin™, you are ensuring your facility introduces into its medical gas pipeline only quality controlled medical air identified by batch numbers, and tested within the scope of the United States Pharmacopeia (USP). It validates your Medical air USP to meet good manufacturing practices and reflect the production quality control experience from our medical cylinder fill plants.

When made on site, the National Building Code of Canada mandates CAN/CSA Z7396.1: “The owner of the healthcare facility shall ensure that the product delivered by a compressor system used as a source of medical air meets the specifications for Air USP” 

With aerALin's precise quality control systems, hospitals can validate the medical air in their medical gas piping systems and regulate against breaches in:

• Humidity
• Oxygen content by volume
• Nitrogen dioxide ppm
• Nitric oxide ppm
• Carbon dioxide ppm
• Carbon monoxide ppm
• Sulphur dioxide ppm

Medical air USP applications

Medical air USP is a critical respiratory adjunct to numerous respiratory therapies. Medical applications include:

• Mechanical ventilation: Medical air may be used as a carrier gas to supply respirators in respiratory assistance in anaesthesia, resuscitation, ventilation and isolette environmental control.
• Nebulisation: In aerosol treatments, medical air may be used as a gas vector for the inhaled drugs when oxygen supplementation is not required.
• Hyperbaric chambers: For this therapy, patients enter chamber to breathe in pure oxygen for a short period in air pressure levels 1.5 to 3 times higher than average. The goal is to fill the blood with enough oxygen to repair tissues and restore normal body function.

Patients such as neonates and people suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome have delicate respiratory systems sensitive to oxygen toxicity. They often require a precise and reliable concentration of Medical air USP to control their oxygen exposure and breathe properly.