CAIRE marks 20 years of LifeStyle
By HME News Staff
Updated 9:57 AM CDT, Tue April 5, 2022
BALL GROUND, Ga. – CAIRE is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the launch of the first portable oxygen concentrator, the LifeStyle. “For us, pioneering the first portable oxygen concentrator has been both a point of pride, and an ongoing incentive to continue to innovate and develop those technologies that will ensure clinically efficacious oxygen delivery and an improve quality of life for all of our users around the world,” said Earl Lawson, CEO of CAIRE. Introduced under CAIRE’s AirSep brand, the LifeStyle was the brainchild of then Vice President of Research and Development Norm McCombs, who modeled the size and weight of the device on his wife’s handbag. The LifeStyle would go on to be the first POC to gain approval from the Federal Aviation Administration for commercial air flights in 2005. McCombs was recognized for his contributions by President Barack Obama with a National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2013. The LifeStyle paved the way for the FreeStyle series.
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