Word: oxygenate
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...survivors, who was in the movie theater at the time. "There were about 60 of us in there. We all started scrambling for the exits as the lights went out." Also in the theater was Briton Tony Silvester, 31, who described the scene as one of "complete chaos, with oxygen bottles flying all over the place. Nobody knew what to do. Suddenly she toppled over and I was thrown into the sea." Both men swam to safety. Less fortunate were some 50 others who were believed to have been trapped in the submerged theater...
...vital substance: pulmonary surfactant, a whitish, soaplike chemical that coats the lungs and keeps airspaces open. Without surfactant, the air sacs in the lungs become stiff and collapse, preventing inhalation, and the lungs become dense and hyaline, or glasslike. The usual recourse has been to supply the baby with oxygen-enriched air (sometimes with the aid of a respirator) until the lungs are mature enough to manufacture a sufficient amount of the chemical. But this involves expensive machines and a long hospital stay that can cost more than...
...syringe, he could propel it directly into an infant's air passages. To spread it over the lungs, he just moved his tiny patients about until the alveolar cells that make up the lining of the lung were all coated. The infants were immediately placed in a 100% oxygen atmosphere and put on respirators to help aerate their lungs. Before long, they were breathing more normally, and within hours, they had turned from deathly gray to a healthy pink...
...victory over the Soviets. The U.S. players needed a victory in their final game against Czechoslovakia to win their first hockey gold medal. Behind 4-3 after two frustrating periods, they were visited in their dressing room by the Soviet team captain, who urged them to take oxygen. With Roger Christian of Minnesota firing in three goals (he scored four on the day), the Americans roared back in the final period to win, 9-4. "The big joke," McCartan recalls, "was that the guys who didn't take the oxygen were the ones who scored the goals...
...certified, and presumably on automatic pilot. Zoerb tried to make contact with the Cessna by radio, but got no answer. He saw the plane go into a steep dive and crash into the Atlantic Ocean. Aviation officials theorize that Rein and Benscotter had passed out from lack of oxygen and that the Cessna had flown itself hundreds of miles before disappearing into...