Our extensive line of medical gases is just one aspect of the quality, reliability and technological
innovation you can expect from Prest-O-Sales & Service, Inc. Our production, distribution, and
customer service personnel are all dedicated to providing you product and service consistency. Our
array of supply modes allows us to offer you the optimal medical gas system.
Respiratory Therapy Gases
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Therapy gases
Diagnostic gases
Anesthetic gases - Nitrous oxide/calibration mixtures
Blood gas mixtures
Laser gas mixtures (in-patient and out-patient surgery): Excimer, Molecular, Surgical
Lung diffusion gas mixtures
Oxygen- Grab ‘n Go E cylinders
Helium-oxygen mixtures
Computed Tomography (CT) scanning mixtures
Oxygen
For over 75 years, Prest-O-Sales & Service has been a premier supplier of pure Oxygen to medical
facilities and home care providers. We
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Design and install safe, smoothly functioning oxygen systems for efficient supply.
Familiarize you and your staff with federal, state, and local regulatory codes governing
oxygen supply installations.
Provide minimum 24-hour reserve supplies of oxygen for facility supply systems.
Install Praxair's Tracker™ or similar computerized remote monitoring on bulk systems.
Ensure that your oxygen supplies are not interrupted during supplier changeover or new bulk
storage installation.
Offer three systems to deliver oxygen: concentrators, compressed gas cylinders, and
portable and bulk liquid systems.
Sell and service ambulatory patient oxygen conserving devices.
Laboratory Gases
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Anaerobic and aerobic gas mixtures
Instrument gases
Clinical stable isotopic gases
o Carbon monoxide-neon
o Carbon monoxide-acetylene-helium
o Carbon monoxide-helium-oxygen
o Carbon monoxide-acetylene-helium-oxygen
o Pure gases
o Acetylene
o Air
o Argon
o Carbon dioxide
o Helium
o Hydrogen
o Methane
o Nitrogen
o Oxygen
o Propane
Sterilant Gases
Prest-O-Sales & Service supplies ethylene oxide-based sterilant gases. These gases are used in the
sterilization of a variety of medical devices, surgical equipment, and similar materials used in the
healthcare industry. We utilize special cylinder cleaning and inspection procedures to ensure the
purity of these products, minimizing polymer problems.
Liquid Helium
Helium is used as a component of breathing mixtures to reduce the density of the mixture to facilitate
breathing under certain physical and physiological conditions.
In Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machines, helium cools electromagnetic coils to
superconductive levels. This decreases the metal's ordinary resistance to the electrical current and
results in high-resolution images.
Nitrogen
Nitrogen is used as a component in many gas mixtures and as a displacement medium for sterile
equipment. It is also used as a non-oxidizing displacement medium in pharmaceutical vials and as a
propellant in pressurized aerosol type dispensers. Nitrogen provides a source of pneumatic pressure
to power gas-operated medical devices and as a coolant for carbon dioxide surgical lasers.
Nitrogen is also used to freeze and preserve blood, tissue, semen and other biological specimens
and to freeze and destroy diseased tissue in cryosurgery and dermatology. It may also be used to
pre-cool or insulate Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machines which conserves helium.
Carbon Dioxide
Carbon dioxide is used for close-to-physiologic atmospheres for the operation of artificial organs and
in cryosurgery with insufflators during laparoscopic surgery. Carbon dioxide is also used as a
component in a mixture of oxygen or air as a respiratory stimulant to promote deep breathing.
Nitrous Oxide
Nitrous oxide is used as an analgesic, often in combination with other agents for the production of
anesthesia. Nitrous oxide is also used in cryosurgery.
Medical Air
Medical air is used in respiratory therapy and humidity treatments using nebulizers.