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...immediate concern with such a trauma are the ABCs - airway, breathing and circulation. Because the nerves that control breathing are located in the C3-4 area of the spine, doctors on the field and in the emergency room were initially focused on making sure that Everett's breathing and blood pressure were maintained. Kowalski notes that in the hours following his injury, Everett did have some sensation in his legs, although he could not move them. That could be an encouraging sign, but spine experts have seen enough spinal cord injuries to know that every case is different, and early...
...asthma continuum, and that these athletes are actually asthma sufferers who experience their symptoms only during intense exercise. "No one knows for sure," he says, "but we are now looking at people who have exercise-induced asthma and investigating the inflammatory cascade that happens in the airway, comparing people who have been diagnosed with [non-exercise-induced] asthma to people who don't have asthma, to understand what makes them different or the same...
...British Airways and other British carriers, including Ryanair and Virgin Atlantic, are blaming some of the problems, including more than a thousand canceled flights, on BAA, the airport operator, which they claim wasn't up to the job of handling the big increase in security. "Since 9/11, everyone in the industry has known there might be times when extra security measures needed to be put in place," British Airway chief executive William Walsh said this week. "Yet when the moment struck, BAA had no plan ready to keep Heathrow functioning properly. The queues for security have wound all round...
...weaving, we sprinted through the corridors, running as fast as was safe - and sometimes a little faster. We ran as if lives depended on us - and sometimes they did. Running just as fast through our heads were new-doctor's thoughts: "stopped heart, brain damage worse by the minute, airway, breathing, circulation - run fast...
SLEEP EASIER, LIVE LONGER A common treatment for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)--continuous positive airway pressure, in which air is forced through the patient's mouth or nose--sharply lowers the risk of heart-disease-related death in OSA sufferers, according to a study in Chest...