Total Gas Management
Air Liquide Healthcare is the most sophisticated provider of cylinder management services, eliminating run outs and excessive cylinder inventory for many satisfied hospital customers across the U.S.
Where is the right cylinder when you need one?
When you are running a busy hospital you need to have medical gas cylinders in sufficient quantities at the right time and in the right place. With all of your other priorities for patients, this does not always happen.
If any of the following sound familiar…
“Cylinder pick up is labor intensive, it’s a pain”
“Departments are taking cylinders from others”
“We’ve had a lot of complaints … wrong cylinder, wrong size, incorrect labeling and tagging”
Air Liquide Healthcare Has Your Solution.
When you buy medical gases from Air Liquide Healthcare America Corporation, you can also benefit from Air Liquide’s innovative Total Gas Management (TGM) service. Air Liquide Healthcare will supply a highly trained, on-site medical gases technician dedicated to managing and optimizing your hospital’s entire medical gas cylinder inventory.

With Air Liquide’s TGM service, you can minimize the number of cylinders in your hospital and you will never again have to worry about medical gas cylinders being available where and when you need them.
Our TGM program is also cost efficient for your organization. We recognize that our customers are constantly looking for new, innovative ways to maximize every dollar spent, and our TGM program is an excellent tool for getting this done. In fact, we are so confident that this program will save you money that we guarantee you savings with our TGM program simply by improving your current methods of cylinder management using our on-site medical gases technician.
With TGM, Air Liquide provides a professionally trained technician to perform all aspects of cylinder management at your facility:
- Order-taking from departments
- Invoice management to minimize paperwork
- Change-over of cylinders on manifolds
- Delivering of cylinders to the points of use
- Conducting physical inventories
- Ensuring continuity of supply
- Inventory optimization
…So you can enjoy the following benefits:
- Guaranteed no more lost cylinder charges
- Significant reductions in cylinder inventory
- One less Full Time Employee (FTE)
- Improved service – the right cylinder where you need it
- Improved safety – no more empty or expired cylinders delivered to the patient
- Problems and emergency cylinder availability solved smoothly and immediately by your onsite Air Liquide Healthcare technician
- Regulatory compliance for entire cylinder inventory

