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Providing the Missing Link for in-Home Oxygen Care During COVID-19
The online magazine Eastsider LA recently featured CalOx1 because of our ongoing efforts to help fight COVID-19 and save lives. The following highlights some of the key elements of that article. When the Yaeger family started CalOx 84 years ago, they never could have...
Did You Know That Eggs Can Age? Here’s How Oxygen Can Help Fertility Clinics (and Women 40+) Thrive
Did you know that studies have found that the sharp decline in egg quality in women 40 years and older is because egg damage is linked to oxygen-deprived cells? As it turns out, oxygen helps a woman's eggs be the best that they can be. In other words: A woman's eggs...
3 Best Practices for Anesthesia Management in the Age of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed everything. Including surgery. According to the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), there are best practices that surgeons and surgery centers can follow during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here's a high-level overview — and a...
Are Surgery Centers the Answer to Continued COVID-19 Surges?
As the COVID-19 pandemic numbers surge again in the United States, some healthcare providers continue to ask the question that they have been asking since the beginning: Are surgery centers the answer to continued surges? As early as late March 2020, when the COVID...
The Cons of Summiting Mt. Everest With Supplemental Oxygen (or Why Some Mountaineers Prefer to Risk Death)
A lot of adventurers, or alpinists, want to climb Mt. Everest, and while oxygen supplementation has made summiting less deadly, some are still bucking the basic modern advice: Take oxygen! Today it is well known that climbers who don't give their bodies enough time to...
Up, Up and Away: Air Ambulances and Critical Care Patients
Hot air balloons fueled by liquid propane made their debut on the world stage when a balloon by the name of Aérostat Réveillon took flight in 1783. The first passengers? A rooster, a sheep and a duck. Apparently, the balloon managed to fly or float through the air for...
Carbon Dioxide: The Brewer’s Best Friend & What You Need to Know About the CO₂ Shortage
Craft beer popularity is on the rise, and so is the need for carbon dioxide in breweries. In case you didn't know, carbon dioxide (CO₂ for short) is what puts the fizz in your beer, your kombucha, or the cold brew at your local coffee shop. As you've likely...
Going Under the Knife? Carbon Dioxide Lasers Are Making the Scalpel Take a Backseat in Dermatology and Dentistry
Who doesn't love a good lightsaber fight? Turns out lasers aren't just helpful in Star Wars; they're helpful in the real world, too. Today, these "lightsabers" or carbon dioxide lasers (also known as the CO2 laser) are an actual reality in many surgical procedures...
10 Best Practices for Nitrous Oxide in Your Dental Office
When used for pain and anxiety relief, no drug is more popular in dentistry than nitrous oxide. For the patient, nitrous oxide poses little risk and comes with a two-minute onset and recovery period. For the dentist, there is the ease of administration and greater...
Fetch a Dog Some…Oxygen? 6 Ways Animals Receive Oxygen in Veterinary Medicine
Ask any pet owner, and the answer will probably be the same. Pets are part of the family. Their medical needs are approached the same way in which other family members' needs are: with care and attention to detail. In veterinary medicine, oxygen is essential. But...