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- Allied Healthcare Products, Inc. was a key producer and distributor of medical devices serving the global healthcare sector across various settings, including hospital facilities and alternative care environments. The company's comprehensive portfolio encompassed a wide array of respiratory care and anesthesia solutions, featuring items such as air compression units, calibration tools, humidification devices, and equipment for respiratory disposables like oxygen lines, facial masks, and ventilation circuits. They also provided home respiratory support products, which included lightweight oxygen tanks, regulators, pneumatic nebulizers, and portable suction apparatus. Furthermore, the organization specialized in medical gas infrastructure, offering components for in-wall gas systems, central station pumps and compressors, and integrated headwall units. Its regulation and suction instruments, such as flowmeters, vacuum controls, and pressure regulators, along with corresponding adapters and hoses, were designed to measure, manage, monitor, and deliver medical gases from piped systems or machinery directly to patients in hospital rooms, surgical suites, and intensive care areas. Disposable oxygen containers for short-term oxygen delivery were also part of their offerings. In the emergency medical field, Allied Healthcare Products supplied critical respiratory and resuscitation equipment, including demand resuscitation valves, portable resuscitation kits, bag masks, emergency transport ventilators, and precision oxygen regulators. Their trauma and patient handling product lines featured spinal immobilization devices, pneumatic anti-shock garments, and trauma burn treatment kits. The company historically served hospitals, equipment distributors, construction contractors for healthcare facilities, home health care providers, and emergency medical product vendors. Established in 1979 and previously headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the enterprise faced severe liquidity challenges. Consequently, Allied Healthcare Products, Inc. initiated voluntary reorganization proceedings under Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri on May 8, 2023. This process aimed for an orderly sale of its business. Subsequently, the company was acquired by Allied Medical LLC (operating as Flexicare) through a Section 363 sale, with the transaction concluding on July 12, 2023. An amended liquidation plan was officially approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court on January 19, 2024. The company definitively ceased operations as its liquidation plan became effective on February 5, 2024.