Word: oxygenation
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...every standard medical and logical, Henry Jackson, lying unconscious in a New Jersey hospital on his 32nd birthday, was finished. Massive internal hemorrhaging had drained him of 90% of his blood. His level of hemoglobin--the vital, oxygen-carrying compound in his red cells--had plummeted from a normal reading of 13 to an ominous 1.7, a number that one of his doctors characterized as "incompatible with survival." A blood transfusion could save him, but his wife, torn between her husband's life and their beliefs as Jehovah's Witnesses--a religious community that prohibits transfusions because of biblical references...
When Jackson was wheeled into the institute, Dr. Aryeh Shander, chief of anesthesiology and critical-care medicine, and his team moved swiftly. First, they essentially paralyzed the patient with drugs to reduce the demand for oxygen by his muscles, brain, lungs and other organs. Next, they gave him high-potency formulations of iron supplements and vitamins, plus "industrial doses" of a blood-building drug, synthetic erythropoietin, that stimulates the bone marrow to produce red blood cells. Finally, intravenous fluids were administered to goad what little circulation he had left...
According to Kruger's cousin, William W. Burke-White '98, Kruger is in a coma "caused by a lack of oxygen subsequent to alcohol poisoning...
...Diana's last "instructions" were relayed to him and that he in turn passed them on to Diana's sister Sarah. But neither he nor the Spencers are saying more. Last week the Paris daily Le Parisien quoted an unnamed doctor as saying Diana's last words, as an oxygen mask was put over her face, were "Leave me alone." But this "witness" is also the one who incorrectly claimed that Dodi's body was thrown 60 ft. from the car. Lies, conspiracy theories and outrageous tales abound. An emergency-service doctor has told TIME that an associate...
...wall to the new hatch. On Earth, the job would be little harder than screwing cables into a vcr, but in bulky gloves and zero G, it was far more difficult. As Vinogradov struggled, Mission Control urged him to take his time. "Don't rush. You have enough oxygen," the Mission Control chief admonished...