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How Does Nitrous Oxide Affect The Human Body?
When inhaled, the gaseous combination of nitrous oxide and oxygen acts as an anesthetic and analgesic during medical and dental procedures – such as oral surgery – as well as during childbirth and trauma treatment. The medical use of nitrous oxide-oxygen in...
An Overview Of The Benefits Of Oxygen Therapy
As humans, we breathe oxygen to survive. Though it makes up little more than 20% of the air we breathe (the majority of which is nitrogen), oxygen is vital to the proper functioning of our bodies – our hearts and brains included. Oxygen is required for cell...
What Are The Benefits Of Cryosurgery?
Cryosurgery, or cryotherapy, is the application of extreme cold to destroy diseased or unwanted tissue. The cold is applied with cryogens such as argon, carbon dioxide, and, most commonly, liquid nitrogen. Rapid freezing kills the targeted cells, while anesthetically...
Is Your Restaurant Ready For Nitrogenated Beverages?
Nitrogen is an inert gas – colorless, odorless, tasteless – that constitutes almost 80% of the air we breathe (the other 20% is oxygen). Less soluble than carbon dioxide, nitrogen will only dissolve in liquid under pressure. Once pressurized, nitrogen gas forms tiny...
5 Interesting Facts About Carbonated Water
Let's take a look at what makes carbonated water bubbly. When pressurized carbon dioxide is dissolved in potable (drinking) water, the resulting carbonic acid creates bubbles. As the pressure is released – such as when a bottle or can is opened – the carbon dioxide...
What Are the Dental Benefits of Cryotherapy?
Cold exposure has been used to treat pain and swelling for centuries. Cryotherapy, or cold therapy, has many applications in modern medicine, and can also treat a variety of oral inflammatory conditions in the dentist's office. In the 20th century, dentists began...
CalOx Helps COVID-19 Patients Practice Self-Care at Home
In March 2020, to impede the spread of COVID-19 in the Greater Los Angeles area, Mayor Eric Garcetti issued a Safer at Home emergency order, urging LA residents to stay at home and keep outings limited to the essential. In a city as populous as LA, hospitals can...
CalOx Helps LA Hospitals Manage the COVID-19 Crisis
California is the most populous state in the country, with the highest concentration of residents dwelling in the Greater Los Angeles area. Soon after the COVID-19 pandemic reached LA, in March 2020, Mayor Eric Garcetti issued a Safer at Home emergency order, to help...
4 Key Trends in the Carbonated Beverage Industry
How much do you think carbonated beverages were worth globally in 2019 (think: market size)? If you're in the industry, it may not surprise you to learn that the global carbonated beverages market size was valued at approximately $407 billion in 2019. What's more,...
When Pets Need Oxygen Therapy, And What Your Veterinary Clinic Should Know
If an animal patient—or pet—shows difficulty breathing? Oxygen therapy will be the immediate treatment in a veterinary clinic; while at the same time, we will work to understand the causes of the pet's breathing impairment. Obstructed airway? Congestive heart failure?...