New Airway's 'Smarts' Ensure That Patients Get Plenty Of Oxygen
...cted, such errorscan lead not only to insufficient ventilation but also to stomachrupture, airway trauma, irreversible damage to the heart orbrain, or even death. The new endotracheal tube sidesteps these perils with"smarts" derived from ultrasound transducers smaller than apencil's eraser -- miniature vers...Study Shows Athletes Get No Kick From Nasal Strips
...ter while the researchers measured air flow, nasal ventilation and nasal resistance under two conditions -- weari...se tests so researchers could measure air flow and ventilation at both sites. They also measured performance, based on power output. Results showed that wear...China And USGS--Working Together On Environmental Issues
... muchof the coal is burned in homes without proper ventilation and with no regard forthe quality of the coal. As a result, many millions of people suffer fromvarious health problems," Finkelman explained. The USGS, in cooperation with state geological surveys, has been collecting coalquality data for the U.S...Formaldehyde Emissions From Consumer Products
...hing new clothing before use and assuring adequate ventilation during use of other products," he says. Emission rates, however, are not the whole story, Kelly points out. "Wood products emit at a steady rate for weeks or months, whereas emissions from the cosmetics, paints and wallpaper dropped rapidly within ...Rare Fossil Shows Theropod Dinosaurs Are Fast, Dangerous 'Turbocharged' Reptiles
...egy for conserving energy. Buttheir enhanced lung ventilation capacity gave them the potential for theaggressive, extended activity typical of birds and mammals. "Theropod dinosaurswere fast, dangerous animals," Geist said, "certainly not slow or sluggish. They could conserve energy much of the time and then g...Rare Fossil Shows Dinosaurs As Fast, Dangerous
...rategy for conservingenergy. But its enhanced lung ventilation capacity gave it the potential for thetype of aggressive, extended activity typical of birds and mammals. "These theropod dinosaurs were fast, dangerous animals," Geist said,"certainly not slow or sluggish. They could conserve energy much of ...New Carbon Monoxide Sensor Developed For Occupational Use
...rters on the forklifts and modifying thebuilding's ventilation system to reduce exhaust concentrations. The Berkeley Lab team provided 60 workers who volunteered for the study with thenew occupational sensor, which was clipped to the workers' lapels. They werealso given commercially available diffusion tubes, a...... use and reduce the amount of equipment and ventilation now required to protect workers, Eckert noted. This could produce cost savings for aircraft operators and others using large quantities of coatings. A solvent-less coating also provides an important logistical benefit: a reduction in ...Duke expedition to rescue rare lemurs
...l beingsought, will include chambers with separate ventilation systems and an entryarea in which people can don isolation suits. The quarantine will also proveinvaluable for isolating animals coming into the center from zoos and otherfacilities, Glander said. The Ivoloina Zoological Park that will be the...Exposures to second-hand smoke lower than believed, ORNL study finds
...her reason for the difference could be that todays ventilation systems are more efficient, Jenkins said. The Knoxville study also showed that for bartenders who live with smokers, the away-from-work exposure is at least as important as the at-work exposure. And people who are highly exposed at home tend to be mo...Lung ailments come with the paycheck for wide swath of workers
...perators know the risks and have installed special ventilation systems and wear respirators. In addition to such patients, Beckett says that nearly every pulmonary physician in the North, where asbestos was once used widely to insulate houses and pipes, has patients who are now developing asbestos-related lung ...Toxicologists discover traces of diesel exhaust in the body
... almost the same extent as a result of ineffective ventilation of the office building. This shows how unreliable risk assessments based on occupational groups can be. To improve health conditions at work, it is necessary in many cases to test individual employees. The diesel residues identified are products c...Tobacco smoke flavoring contains hazardous chemicals
...obacco. Higher levels were found in the smoke when ventilation holes in the cigarette's filter were blocked. In animals, exposure to the chemicals can cause cancer and lung disease. In rodents, for example, animals inhaling one flavoring compound - eugenol - show far more serious adverse health effects than anim...Novel resuscitative fluid developed at University of Pittsburgh shows promise in animal studies
...ither group, and no other form of resuscitation or ventilation was attempted. In addition to survival, Dr. Kameneva's team looked at hemodynamics -- how the blood circulates through the cardiovascular system. The control animals showed no sign of improvement and all suffered fatal drops in blood pressure and bl...More tolerable treatment for severe, obstructive sleep apnea around the world
... "This study gives us a new approach to supporting ventilation in patients with sleep apnea and other kinds of breathing disorders," says Alan Schwartz, M.D., associate professor of pulmonary medicine at Johns Hopkins and lead author of the study. "This approach is po......ise, but relates the rate of oxygen consumption to ventilation (the rate of air intake at any given moment during the test.) To test OUES in adults, Hollenberg and his colleagues applied it to data he had collected for 429 elderly people from Sonoma, California, who had reached maximum effort on an exercise ...Humans at work and play in high altitude environments
...rences in traits thought to offset hypoxia such as ventilation and hemoglobin concentration in men, women and children in the Andes as compared to Tibet. The contrasts in high-altitude physiology have been interpreted as the outcome of different micro-evolutionary processes, she said. Figuring out how that happ......creases brain estrogen receptor levels and affects ventilation in male and female rats," is the result of an investigation conducted by Shashita R. Inamdar, Kathleen M. Eyster, and Evelyn H. Schlenker, all of the Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences at the University of South Dakota School of Medicine, Vermilli...Gender differences in respiratory response to exercise and hypoxia
...anisms interact in adjusting breathing pattern and ventilation during exercise. Dr. Magdalena Seebauer of the Institute of Physiology, University of Zurich, Switzerland, investigated gender differences in these interactions by analyzing phase coordination of breathing and exercise rhythms during bicycling in nor...Univ. of Fla. professor: Air cleaning system destroys Anthrax, other pathogens
...re for so-called sick building syndrome, when poor ventilation and a build-up of mold or mildew cause illnesses f... said the technology could be installed in central ventilation systems to decontaminate buildings or homes or used in specific locations where contamination is fea...