World COPD Day which is held on November 18, is organized by the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) in collaboration with health care professionals and COPD patient groups throughout the world. Its aim is to raise awareness, share knowledge, and discuss ways to reduce the burden of COPD worldwide. World COPD ...

Since completing the acquisition of Gas Control Equipment (GCE) in October 2018, ESAB Welding & Cutting Products has focused on aligning its global product offerings and innovations into four focus areas: cutting and welding, healthcare, speciality gas equipment and cylinder valves. Furthering the global integration, ESAB today announced that ...

GCE is happy to launch a series of three Stationary Oxygen Concentrators (SOC) M50, OC-E 80 and EC-E100 for patients that require Long Term Oxygen Therapy.  M50 Stationary Oxygen Concentrator is a compact and light weight SOC that provide oxygen flow of up to 5 litres per minute.  The OC-E 80 and EC-E100 SOCs deliver up to 8 litres and ...

We are pleased to launch our UPDATED GCE Healthcare catalogue - Central gas supply systems for medical gases. In the catalogue, you can find a complete range of CGS products for supplying oxygen, nitrous oxide, other gases and vacuum to hospitals, ambulance service providers, emergency services and other special services using this ...

Sir Humphrey Davey (also the inventor of the Davey lamp) first began using gases for pain relief in the 19th Century. In 1844, Gardner Quincy Colton, an American showman, medicine man, lecturer, and former medical student presented a demonstration of nitrous oxide inhalation, and the need to assure the correct gas was being connected was ...