Swedish Mirola Rescue has received its first order from the Swedish Rescue Services - the Rescue Services in Skellefteå municipality buys the company's pioneering oxygen system FIDO

FIDO is a patented, highly efficient oxygen system that received its medical approval (CE) this spring, after five years of development, the company has now entered the commercialization phase.

The Swedish company Mirola Rescue has developed and patented the pioneering oxygen equipment FIDO (which stands for Field Oxygen System). The product is 90 percent lighter and four times smaller than existing solutions on the global market. Areas of use are mainly within rescue and advanced field care. Manufacturing takes place in the Stockholm region and Gnosjö. Mirola head office is located in Stockholm, Sweden.

Mirola has now received the company´s first order from the Swedish Rescue Service. The Rescue Service in Skellefteå municipality has recently initiated purchases for their rescue vehicles, specifically designed for use in the municipality's mining facilities and which will now be equipped with FIDO.

• This is something we in the mining industry have been looking for, for several years, says Erik Bergqvist at Kristineberg mining facility Boliden Minerals.
• FIDO is light and has smooth technology. It is compatible with the self-rescue technology we already have in the mines, but equipped with medical oxygen FIDO can be used when someone is injured by smoke. In a less acute phase, an employee can get himself or herself from their workplace in the mine to a rescue chamber. However, if the person is damaged by smoke, our existing equipment in our rescue chambers is not enough to treat that person. It is in the rescue chamber, in the event of smoke injuries, as well as during rescue from the chambers, that the Rescue Services vehicles also equipped with FIDO is needed, Erik Bergqvist Boliden Minerals.

In terms of user time, the system costs about as much as existing systems. The advantages lie in action time, weight and volume, and that it gives off hot and moist oxygen. Ordinary systems give off oxygen which is dry and cold and can damage the mucous membranes, especially in older people. Therefore, they need to be supplemented with heating and humidification systems that are both expensive, take up unnecessary space and are also significantly heavier.

- In the rescue services there is a constant shortage of space and load capacity, especially in major accidents, and the smaller and more efficient equipment you have, the more lives can be saved, says Daniel Haarala, Head of accident investigations and contingency planning at the Swedish Rescue Service in Skellefteå municipality.

- I hope that many will buy FIDO, Erik Berqvist, Boliden Minerals says.

FIDO will now be used in all mining facilities within Skellefteå municipality.

Mirola Rescue is owned by a number of private investors. The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency as well as the Swedish Armed Forces have been involved as advisors during the 5 year long development of FIDO.

- The oxygen bag in today's ambulances and helicopters weighs 15-20 kilos and has an action time of 30 minutes. With FIDO, the weight has been reduced to about one and a half kilos and the action time has almost doubled. Had we had this system during the disco fire in Gothenburg, where 63 people died, it would have saved lives. Young people who inhaled fire smoke and who were taken out died because they could not get enough oxygen equipment, Bo Andersson, fire engineer and senior expert at the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency.

The so-called “house” contains FIDO´'s patented filters which allow the oxygen to be used many more times during inhalation and exhalation compared to traditional oxygen systems. It is the filter that enables the tubes to be considerably smaller and therefore advantageous in all forms of rescue work.

FIDO is also useful in the treatment of Covid-19

- More than 95 percent of the patients who are or have been hospitalized are not in need of a respirator, but in need of oxygen. Our system uses so little oxygen that we can save the lives of 16 patients when with the traditional system you can only save the life of one. That´s how considerable the difference in technology is, explains Jonny Berzelius, Chief Technical Officer at Mirola Rescue AB

Johan Bojs is Chairman of the Board of Mirola AB and Anders Gustafsson is the CEO.

The company's Advisory Board consists of:

Anders Ekblom, doctor anaesthesia and intensive care

Mats Wallin, doctor anaesthesia and intensive care

Erik Kinnman, physician neurology

Mirola Rescue is a member of the industry organization Swedish Medtech

For more information, contact Chief Technical Officer Jonny Berzelius:

jonny.berzelius@mirola.se

mobile: +46760042100

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