CNN: Entrepreneur creates new recipe for oxygen OxySure's...
Malika Zouhali-Worrall
Monday, March 30, 2009
CNN
Entrepreneur creates new recipe for oxygen OxySure's potentially
lifesaving invention is making its way now to schools around the
country.
Malika
Zouhali-Worrall March 30, 2009: 11:34 AM ET 
"It arrived not a day too soon," she
says of the emergency oxygen generator made by OxySure, a small company based
in Frisco, Texas.
The child recovered, thanks in part to that timely dose of
oxygen. In the past, schools and other public institutions have
avoided keeping medical oxygen on-site because pressurized
cylinders - the traditional containers for the gas - require
regular maintenance and can explode if they're mishandled. OxySure
founder Julian Ross hopes his invention will change that.
OxySure's Model 615 is an FDA-approved device that creates
oxygen from a chemical reaction. At the turn of a dial, two inert
powders and a liquid combine to generate more than 15 minutes of
medically pure oxygen that a layperson can administer while waiting
for paramedics to arrive.
Ross, 42, didn't invent this method of synthesizing oxygen. But
while other companies have tried to market similar devices in the
past, he claims that only his delivers an adequate volume of gas to
treat a medical emergency. The exact recipe is proprietary, but the
engineering enables simultaneous chemical reactions in two chambers
within the Model 615 that help create adequate pressure as the
oxygen exits through a single tube.
Since OxySure's oxygen generator went on sale in early 2008, the
$350 machine has attracted a small but growing following. Recent
federal and state laws encouraging or requiring the placement of
automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in public places have been
a boon. Working with AED distributors across the country, Ross has
marketed OxySure's machine as a logical accompaniment. Some
distributors even bundle his oxygen generator with AED units.
Last year Ross sold oxygen generators to schools in 15 states.
He plans to move up to 10,000 units in 2009 and hopes to adapt his
invention for medically challenging environments such as mines and
airplanes.
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