Medical Gases: Production, Applications, and Safety

Medical gases are widely used in the healthcare industries, where they find a broad range of applications, including patient care, sample storage, magnetic resonance imaging, anesthesia, and sample analysis.  
Covering the entire spectrum of the topic, this ready reference offers a comprehensive overview of medical gas production, equipment, verification, and standards. With a clear focus throughout on safety, the text recommends environmentally responsible manufacturing practices during each step of the process: manufacture, storage, transport, distribution, and in applications. It also discusses standards and regulations, in particular those of the European Union.
An essential, one–stop guide for researchers and professionals whose work includes the manufacture, handling, or use of medical gases.

General Remarks
Medicinal Gases: Manufacturing
Pressure Vessels and their Accessories
Analytical Methods for Gases (as described in Ph. Eur.)
European Pharmacopoeia Specifications
Medical Gases Production –
Special Handling to Comply with GMP–Rulings
Requirements of the new Good Distribution Practice (GDP)
Safe Handling of Gases


Dr. Hartwig Müller is the Head of the Safety Department of AIR LIQUIDE Medical in Germany, a subsidiary of AIR LIQUIDE selling only medical gases and accessories. He received both his degree and doctorate in Chemistry from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany and spent more than 30 years in the gas industry, occupied with Specialty and Medical Gases and their analytics. He has been member of international working groups of the European Industrial Gas Association and an Expert to the European Pharmacopoeia Commission for Medical Gases.