As a partner of the hospital sector for many years, we work alongside 15,000 hospitals and clinics throughout the world. By anticipating their needs and patients’ new ways of life, we are supporting the transformation of this sector and helping healthcare professionals care for their patients.
Whether it is in the emergency department, operating theater or intensive care units, our medical gases and associated services enable healthcare professionals to care, relieve pain, anaesthetize and improve respiratory functions. And as demand for care is increasing around the world, as healthcare needs change, and as hospitals themselves evolve, we help them respond to the structural challenges they face. That includes welcoming an increasing number of patients, reducing costs while maintaining the quality of care, operating in an increasingly complex healthcare network and cooperating with new players, but also taking advantage of the opportunities presented by digital and technological progress.
We constantly work with healthcare professionals to design new solutions which are adapted to their needs. Lighter and easier to use medical gas cylinders were invented in this way. These cylinders display the remaining consumption time and emit a warning sound when the level is low. These functions improve patient safety and help optimize medical gas consumption. We also work with an array of public and private science and technology organizations to develop other solutions which strive to be better adapted to practitioners’ and patients’ needs.
Hospitals are among our long-time customers. We work with them constantly to come up with new solutions that range from the design of new generations of medical gas cylinders to the use of digital technologies to simplify the tasks of healthcare teams, and the implementation of an optimal hospital-to-home transition.
Diana Schillag, Vice President in charge of Europe Healthcare Operations and the Healthcare World Business Line
Air Liquide researchers are exploring new properties of pure and mixed gases, in particular for applications in fields such as neurology and pain management. They are also developing innovative solutions for cardiac resuscitation and e-health.
