Word: oxygenation
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...redecorating a castle set that had been swallowing up space on the Warner Brothers back lot ever since Camelot. One sometimes wonders how the actors get through their Burt Bacharach-Hal David tunes-the contemporary equivalent, presumably, of the music of the spheres-without the aid of bottled oxygen...
...some areas; there, the ground is covered by as much as 50 tons of debris per acre. In strong winds on a hot day, the duff could burn so furiously that huge updrafts of air would be created as the fire sought oxygen to feed itself. In such an event, says Berkeley Forestry Professor Harold Biswell, "we might have a fire storm that would literally suck roofs off houses...
...Shortly after 3:30 p.m., stricken, he snatched up his bedroom telephone and gasped out one last order: "Send Mike immediately." Two Secret Service agents sprinted 100 yards to Johnson's bedroom and found him crumpled on the floor. His face was already blue from lack of oxygen, his right eye and cheekbone bruised from the fall. Too late, the agents attempted mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, then tried external heart massage, then carried him to his private turboprop at the ranch landing field. By the time the plane reached San Antonio a quarter of an hour later, the agents...
...rated "fair," and he was expected to recover. Only 26 hours after admission, his heart began racing at 140 beats per minute, his blood pressure dropped to 80 over 60 (120 over 80 is normal), and respiration was failing. To pull him through this "ultracritical" period, doctors placed an oxygen mask over his face, and gave antibiotics by intramuscular injection to help combat the congestion in the lungs...
...healthy person normally breathes fairly deeply, and spontaneously takes in an extra-deep breath every five or ten minutes. A patient flat on his back after major surgery, however, breathes less deeply and omits the extra inspirations. His lungs get less oxygen and, as a result, parts may collapse and eventually stop functioning altogether. To overcome this problem, Dr. Robert Bartlett of the University of California at Irvine proposes a simple solution: yawning. Bartlett urges doctors to teach and encourage patients to yawn deeply every five minutes or so, filling the lungs to near ideal capacity. He has invented...