Word: oxygenate
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...Mailer, at the very same instant, was not feeling the way I had imagined him: The subject was not absolutely calm. To his own excitement was added the tense quivering grip of the Marshal--the sense of breathing mountain air had hardly abated: his lungs seemed to take in oxygen with a thin edge, his throat burned...
...under-six-months baby, suggested Dr. Chanock, still has little or no immunoglobulin A to fight off RSV. So the virus gets to his bronchioles and lungs. There, it wreaks havoc by causing 50 or more cells to merge into giant combines. Oxygen exchange is so impaired that the baby has asthma-like spasms. To make matters worse, said Dr. Chanock, the G antibody circulating in the blood just below the lungs' surface actually combines with virus particles to form more damaging complexes...
...planes and ships equipped with radar and sonar sounding devices searched wide stretches of the Mediterranean without success. They found bits of debris and oil slicks, which are common in busy sea lanes, but analysis failed to link the findings with either the Dakar or Minerve. When the oxygen reserves of the two vessels were exhausted three to four days later, hopes for saving the 121 crewmen were abandoned...
There were many complications. Kasperak had worked in a fume-filled steel mill, had been a heavy smoker and, as a result, his lungs were leathery. They could not exchange enough oxygen to keep him going. So an incision was made in his throat and a tube inserted to supply oxygen more efficiently and to remove mucus. Kasperak's big chest was rigid; other organs showed little tendency to close in around the small heart, and the cavity filled with fluid. His liver and kidneys had been damaged by a shortage of oxygenated blood...
Kasperak rallied through most of the week. But then he suffered a serious setback. Because of his poor liver function, an excess of bilirubin (a by-product of hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying protein in blood) began to build up in his system, and doctors scheduled another massive transfusion to remove impurities from his blood. Through it all, the one organ that consistently worked best was his acquired heart...