Carbon dioxide 5% / Oxygen 95%
Available from a pharmacy with pharmacist advice
Carbon dioxide is a colorless, odorless gas vital to life on Earth.
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Carbon dioxide 5% / Oxygen 95% cylinders size F
Carbon dioxide 5% / Oxygen 95% cylinders size G
Carbon dioxide 5% / Oxygen 95% cylinders size J
Therapeutically similar medicines
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Guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
NICE clinical guidance(15)
Extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal for acute respiratory failure (HTG703)
Specialist neonatal respiratory care for babies born preterm (NG124)
OxyMask for delivering oxygen therapy (MIB160)
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adults (QS10)
Obstructive sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome and obesity hypoventilation syndrome in over 16s (NG202)
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for severe acute respiratory failure in adults (HTG260)
Lung volume reduction surgery for advanced emphysema (HTG69)
COVID-19 rapid guideline: managing COVID-19 (NG191)
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in postneonatal children (HTG17)
i STAT CG4+ and CHEM8+ cartridges for point-of-care testing in the emergency department (MIB38)
Thoracoscopic repair of congenital diaphragmatic hernia in neonates (HTG247)
End-tidal Control software for use with Aisys closed circuit anaesthesia systems for automated gas control during general anaesthesia (MIB10)
VA ECMO for postcardiotomy cardiogenic shock in adults (HTG762)
VA ECMO for extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) in adults with refractory cardiac arrest (HTG765)
ERBE flexible cryoprobes for bronchoscopic diagnosis and treatment (MIB39)
Source: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Active and completed clinical studies from ClinicalTrials.gov
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Reviews & meta-analyses: 11 · Randomised trials: 1 · 1945–2026
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Cheonghee Kim, F. Dionigi, V. Beermann, et al.
Advanced Materials, 2018
P. D. Dissanayake, Siming You, A. Igalavithana, et al.
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2020
X. Su, Jinghua Xu, Binglian Liang, et al.
Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2016
Marktus A. Atanga, F. Rezaei, A. Jawad, et al.
Applied Catalysis B-environmental, 2018
Bloomfield PM, Connell CJW, Shaw DM, et al.
2026
- Carbon Dioxide
- Cognition
- Atmospheric Pressure
J. Kasting
Precambrian research, 1987
Zuozhong Liang, Hong-Yan Wang, Haoquan Zheng, et al.
Chemical Society reviews, 2021
Shan Gao, Zhongti Sun, Wei Liu, et al.
Nature Communications, 2017
Dunfeng Gao, I. Zegkinoglou, N. J. Divins, et al.
ACS nano, 2017
A. Eilert, F. Cavalca, F. Roberts, et al.
The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2017
Sources: aggregated from Europe PMC (EMBL-EBI), OpenAlex, Crossref, PubMed and other open scholarly databases. Retracted articles are excluded. Study information is provided for research purposes and does not constitute medical advice.
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Key facts
Drug status
Approved
Major interactions
None known
Half-life
Not available
Mechanism
Data not found.
Food interactions
None known
Human targets
None mapped
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ATC V03AN02
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