Introduction to Heliox Therapy

Hello, my name is Andy Brown, thank you for watching this

heliox

training video. We are going to cover installing

heliox

, the heliox mixer in the heliox cylinder and we will also cover some basic uses of heliox, so this is a heliox tank. You can say it is heliox because the universal colors are brown for helium and green for oxygen. One of the important things about the heliox blender is that we make different versions, we make a high flow version, we make a low flow version, we make an 80/20 and a 70/30 version, so the heliox cylinders come in three basic contents: 80/20, 70/30 and 6040.

The two most popular tanks used in the hospital today are actually the 80/20 and the 70/ version. Version 30, this is a 80/20 version tank and it is very important that when you look at the label you find that it is 80/20, the concentration of the heliox mixer must match the tank, so an 80/20 tank will be required. an 80/20 blender, a 70/30 cylinder will require a 70/30 blender and that makes a little sense because if there is 20% in the tank, the bottom of the blender goes to 20% and if it is 30% tank, the bottom of the blender goes to 30% that way the blender is calibrated correctly for the tank so medical heliox again we are looking at the tank the really important thing we need to do is this tank will be labeled many times with its concentration and It is very important from the beginning, perhaps when the tank is first used and opened, the contents of the tank are analyzed.

Heliox and oxygen are placing the helium in these cylinders and if the cylinders are rotated 2 to homogenize or mix the contents. of the cylinder then if those contents do not mix well what will happen because really while we are using heliox and helium it is because we take advantage of the density and we all know that helium balloons float so in this cylinder the helium will separate from the oxygen, the helium will be in the top of the tank, the oxygen will be at the bottom of the tank and that is one of the big precautions with heliox because the helium is in a knot, it gasps and forbids, and it can't hold oxygen, so when this cylinder opens for the first time or maybe when you plug in the blender for the first time, that is the right time to analyze the contents of the tank just to check what is in that cylinder.

Heliox 80/20 medical tanks have a standard, they must be nineteen and a half percent higher. to twenty and a half percent and at least seventy thirty concomitant cylinders should be about twenty nine and a half percent to about thirty and a half percent, so now we're going to move on to installing the blender in this heliox tank.