Word: zapol
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Instructor in Anaesthesia Dr. Jesse D. Roberts, Jr., a member of Zapol's research group, said the discovery also explains why mountain climbers short of breath often claim that smoking cigarettes makes them stronger. The seeming paradox may be due to the presence of nitric oxide in cigarette smoke...
When a patient breathes nitric oxide, Zapol said, the gas never leaves the lungs. Instead, it combines with oxygen-carrying hemoglobin in red blood cells and is deactivated, so that any effects are purely local...
Previous treatment for similar respiratory diseases have included mechanical ventilation and infusion of high levels of oxygen, Zapol said, but "nothing to make the lungs smarter...
...Zapol said previous research has proven nitric oxide's efficacy in treating "blue babies," who cannot breathe on their own at birth, and possibly children with congenital heart disease. Roberts predicted that approved use of the gas will be available within two years...
According to Zapol, it all reduces to one simple thing. "Good things hide in pollutants and cigarettes," he said