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In November of 2005, the state of Georgia's Department of Homeland Defense and the office of Hospital / EMS / Trauma Preparedness acquired 600 of the Oxylator EMXb hands free patient ventilation devices. Their requirement for these hands free ventilation devices may increase to a total of 800 in 2006 as the state of Georgia assesses their requirements for surge capacity caused by a potential mass casualty.

The state evaluated the potential for Georgia hospitals to provide beds for a large quantity of patients, and determined care outside of the hospital environment was also needed at various locations throughout the state. To develop a general operational knowledge of the Oxylator EMXb's, the state of Georgia will be placing Oxylator EMXb's with large metropolitan departments of Fire / EMS for use in their routine requirements for CPR and patient transport. As well, the state plans to place the Oxylator EMXb in emergency departments of the designated "go-to" hospitals for mass casualty response throughout the state. Also, some of the devices will be placed storage at strategic locations in the state of Georgia.

The Oxylator EMXb's ability to provide a dual function of routine patient ventilation and mass casualty ventilation was an important and cost effective consideration. As well, the unique ability of the Oxylator EMXb to alert the caregiver to either an immediate change in lung compliance potentially caused by a collapsed lung, etc., or a subtle / gradual change in lung compliance potentially caused by a chemical agents or exposure to biological agents was a very important consideration by the state of Georgia's Department of Homeland Defense.

The United States Special Operations Command (USASOC), headquartered at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, unveiled in December 2002 at the Special Operations Medical Association Conference (SOMA) in Tampa, Florida, that the Oxylator EM-100 has been designated as a "standard" for their new Advanced Airway Management Medical Equipment Set. This Advanced Airway Management Medical Equipment Set was recently updated & reconfigured for all the US Army's Special Operations Forces / Groups.

The Oxylator® EM-100 has recently received the US Army’s fleet-wide Medevac Air Worthiness Release (AWR), and on May 20, 2002, the Oxylator® EM-100 was approved as “safe to fly” on all US Air Force transport aircraft.

In 2002, the Denver, Colorado & Winston-Salem, North Carolina NMRTs (OEP-National Medical Response Teams) acquired Mass Casualty Oxygen Manifold Hard Cases from LSI. The teams already acquired HAZMAT Oxylator® Resuscitation Kits.

In 2002, Pennsylvania's 3rd WMD / CST (Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team) and Georgia's 4th WMD / CST acquired Oxylator® EM-100s and SCBA Regulators as part of their loadout to assist their mission.
   
Civilian
  LSI Oxylator Technology was featured in the "Hands On" section of the September 2004 issue of JEMS Magazine
 
LSI MCI equipment was featured in the "Cool Cache" section of the July / August 2004 issue of Homeland First Response magazine
 
Through 2003 and 2004 the state of Florida EMA acquired over 400 of the Mass Casualty Oxygen Manifold Hard Cases (LSI Part # CPR-9a). These versatile Oxygen manifold hard case systems were placed in numerous emergency equipment caches, placed with DMATs, EMS organizations, and “go-to” hospitals throughout the state of Florida for disaster response.
 

In late 2003 Fisher Scientific, Inc. / Fisher Safety signed a sales & marketing agreement with Lifesaving Systems, Inc. to enable Fisher Safety to promote the LSI Mass Casualty Oxygen Manifold Hard Case configurations.

In November of 2002, the District of Columbia's Department of Homeland Security acquired 50 Oxylator EM-100s as an addition to their medical equipment cache. Additional purchases of the Oxylator EM-100s are anticipated in the near future. This cache of medical equipment is designated to enhance the medical response to a potential terrorist attack in the Washington, DC area.

In year 2002, the Jacksonville Florida Fire / Rescue added an additional 10 Oxylator® EM-100s to the 120 Oxylator's® purchased in 2000. Rescue Chief Tom McCrone indicated that the JAX Fire Department was not only providing hands-free patient ventilation for normal operations, but they would find the large quantity of Oxylator®s handy if a mass casualty event required hands-free patient ventilation. Also in 2002, the Jacksonville Fire / Rescue acquired 7 of the HAZMAT Oxylator® Resuscitation Kits and 10 of the Mass Casualty Oxygen Manifold Hard Cases from LSI for their HAZMAT operations and the city MMRS.

In 2002, the State of Florida EMA acquired 126 of the Mass Casualty Oxygen Manifold Hard Cases. These flexible Oxygen manifold hard cases were placed at 7 designated mass casualty hospitals and 7 emergency equipment caches throughout the State of Florida.