He oxygen This is important for life, we all know this. Typically, this is enough for oxygen discovered in the atmosphere, but sometimes an additional groove in the form is necessary from breathing problems with breathing. Drug oxygenThe field unfortunately, the atmosphere is increasingly distorted from pollution and access to drug oxygen in some countries is really complicated. There is no oxygen for everyone, so many people They die that they could not use it on time.
Thus, the international team of scientists conducted a study aimed at analyzing the world situation of drug oxygen and, in turn, to develop a strategic plan to optimize its use. At the same time, they pretend that this resource reaches the maximum possible number of people who need it.
They showed 52 measures, starting from prevention to the correct choice of patients, by increasing the hiring of personnel capable of installing medicinal oxygen machines. Let’s see which are most important. But before we must clarify the situation and the current problem.
Step by step to get drug oxygen
Liquid oxygen plants are responsible for taking this gas from the air, cleaning it and preparation for use, Both industrial and medicinal.
The process consists of several steps. First, external air It is compressed, cools, and moisture is eliminated. Then it is important to clean impurities, eliminating pollutants. This is done with Molecular sieve, which filters various impurities that are usually in the air, allowing only a certain size of molecules. Thus, there comes a time when only oxygen and nitrogen remain. To divide them, the mixture at temperature -170ºC And then you go to Cryogenic distillation towerThe field in this is subject to extremely low temperatures to move from liquid to gas. This step is obtained at a certain temperature for oxygen, and the other for nitrogen, so they can be precisely divided by monitoring the temperature.
The full process is very expensive. It is assumed that 69% of the global market for liquid oxygen are distributed in only three companies: Air liquid, lend and air productsThey have a field, they have plants distributed around the world, but they very well choose the places in which they build them.
Not all places are valid for entrepreneurs
Most liquid oxygen is used with industrial ends, Thus, countries with small industrial activities are usually not good places for these companies. They should not be built there only for the minimum part intended for drug oxygen. And there is a problem. A developing countries They usually do not have resources for buying oxygen to other countries, but they also do not have neighboring liquid oxygen plants. That’s why Your reservations are very lowUsually not enough for all patients who need it. And there are few of them.
Approximately 374 million people They need medicinal oxygen to live. Sometimes this is necessary in a timely manner, but in other cases there are chronic patients who need constant access to this gas. The cast of heterogeneous and unfair, so the authors of the study, which has just been published in Lancet They thought about some measures.
52 measures to use resources
Among these 52 measures, first of all, some are aimed at the prevention and selection of patients. In fact, prevention is that all people are trying to reduce habits that in the future can lead to oxygen. Without a doubt, the most important of these habits is Smoke But, unfortunately, there are also problems that we cannot avoid individually. Climate pollution and change They lead to the fact that more and more people need medicinal oxygen. This is what can be prevented, but as a society and, above all, from large companies and governments. Individually, we cannot avoid this.
On the other hand, it is important to choose patients who really need available drug oxygen. The first measure to do this to measure oxygen saturation using oximeterThe field is the device that is put on the finger to see the concentration of oxygen in the blood. The problem is that although in developed countries we are accustomed to rapidly growing it in emergency situations or even in primary medical care, in developing countries they hardly.
According to estimates in these countries Pulsioxmers They are available only in 54% of total hospitals and 83% of tertiary hospitals. In addition, many of the available are damaged, so the percentage will be even lower. To the top Black leather And (for what) there are not many studies in search of alternatives for these patients.
You also need personal
Despite all this, the authors of this study believe that more access to these devices should be guaranteed and at the same time improve their work in a larger skin range. It is also important Public education And, of course, hire more Biomedical engineers In these countries. And this is that pulsioxmers are not the only ones who were found. Medical oxygen machines can often be without work for a long time, because there are no one in hospitals who could fix them.
Certificate of drug oxygen
The study that has just been published not only indicates many measures. It also detects some evidence of doctors and patients to whom medicinal oxygen has changed their lives. Children and adults mention their vital experience, and at the same time, many doctors clarify their despair about the lack of resources. I keep the phrase when the Ethiopia doctor is overloaded with the future:
“I do not want any future generation of doctors to decide as a god who lives and who dies, because this is what we had to do when there was no enough oxygen.”
They lived this with Covid-19 and, perhaps, they must continue to do this if there are no letters in this matter. Diseases, many times, do not understand skin or resources, but economics and prejudices can make half of the drowning of the world. Literally.
Source: Hiper Textual
