As global preparations for the coronavirus (Covid-19) response reached their peak, concerns began to emerge over the ability of existing liquid oxygen system’s ability to vaporize and supply sufficient oxygen to fulfil exponentially increasing demand.
The increased flow per patient, combined with the proportion of patients forecast to need oxygen, meant systems might be asked to do far more than the duty for which they were originally designed.
Added to this was the fact that in many cases, oxygen was going to be needed at the bedside of patients in wards where no existing oxygen house-line was fitted at all – meaning cylinder supply was the only viable alternative.
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