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The beginning
Ambu was founded in 1937 by Dr. Holger Hesse, who had come to Denmark because of the persecution of Jews in Germany.
Dr. Holger Hesse developed and manufactured the Sicca Haemometer; a product, that enabled doctors to measure the blood count in a patient’s blood without having to send blood specimens to an external laboratory for analysis. The Sicca Haemometer was a success, partly because it was innovative, partly because it was extremely user-friendly and of top quality.
A world sensation: The Ambu Ventilation Bag
In 1953, Dr. Holger Hesse met the Danish physician Dr. Henning Ruben and a fruitful teamwork began. Together they invented the Ambu Ventilation Bag, which was a revolution within resuscitation. The ventilation bag was the first portable resuscitation device that worked without a battery or an oxygen supply. The Ambu ventilation Bag is produces to this day and is used all over the world by hospitals and rescue services.
Ambu was also a pioneer in the development of manikins for first aid training. The first training manikin was introduced in 1957.
The small company grew large
Right from the outset, Ambu was internationally orientated, and in the 1970s and 1980s the company grew enormously and expanded to include own sales companies outside Denmark.
In 2001 Ambu bought the electrode company Medicotest and thus entered the area of diagnostics.
In 2004, 2005 and 2006 Ambu was declared a ”Gazelle company” by Danish business paper Børsen.
From a single room to several factories
Ambu’s first product – The Sicca Haemometer – was manufactured in a rented room in Copenhagen. Today, Ambu has factories in Denmark, China and Malaysia.
For more than 70 years Ambu has developed new and better products to improve the quality of patient care.
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