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    A breathing apparatus or breathing set is equipment which allows a person to breathe in a hostile environment where breathing would otherwise be impossible...
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    Escape breathing apparatus, also called escape respirators, escape sets, self-rescuer masks, emergency life saving apparatus (ELSA), emergency escape...
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    A self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) is a device worn to provide an autonomous supply of breathable gas in an atmosphere that is immediately dangerous...
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    Underwater breathing apparatus is equipment which allows the user to breathe underwater. The three major categories of ambient pressure underwater breathing apparatus...
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    High altitude breathing apparatus is a breathing apparatus which allows a person to breathe more effectively at an altitude where the partial pressure...
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    A rebreather is a breathing apparatus that absorbs the carbon dioxide of a user's exhaled breath to permit the rebreathing (recycling) of the substantially...
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    equipment for surface-supplied diving is the breathing apparatus which is supplied with primary breathing gas from the surface via a hose, which is usually...
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    The Oxygen breathing apparatus (OBA) is a closed circuit oxygen rebreather. used primarily in firefighting by the US Navy. Its oxygen is generated by...
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    originally just scuba, is any breathing apparatus that is entirely carried by an underwater diver and provides the diver with breathing gas at the ambient pressure...
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  • to illness or constraints on gas flow imposed by breathing apparatus, ambient pressure, or breathing gas composition. The normal relaxed state of the...
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  • or external dead space is volume in the passages of a breathing apparatus in which the breathing gas flows in both directions as the user breathes in and...
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  • Thumbnail for Glossary of breathing apparatus terminology
    A breathing apparatus or breathing set is equipment which allows a person to breathe in a hostile environment where breathing would otherwise be impossible...
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    Ventilator (redirect from Breathing machine)
    A ventilator is a type of breathing apparatus, a class of medical technology that provides mechanical ventilation by moving breathable air into and out...
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    Underwater Breathing Apparatus" and was coined by Christian J. Lambertsen in a patent submitted in 1952. Scuba divers carry their own source of breathing gas...
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    (self-contained breathing apparatuses only); in oxygen-deficient atmosphere; and in an unknown atmosphere. A self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) typically...
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    hazardous materials. Such suits are often combined with self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) to ensure a supply of breathable air. Hazmat suits are used...
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    A breathing gas is a mixture of gaseous chemical elements and compounds used for respiration. Air is the most common and only natural breathing gas, but...
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    anaesthetic gasesPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Breathing apparatus – Equipment allowing or assisting the user to breath in a hostile...
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  • Breathing underwater or underwater breathing may refer to: Aquatic respiration Underwater breathing apparatus Liquid breathing Breathing Under Water (film)...
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    equipment at all, or a wide range of equipment which may include breathing apparatus, environmental protective clothing, aids to vision, communication...
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    plongée ANSTI breathing simulator – Machine to measure work of breathing of diving apparatus ANSTI machine – Machine to measure work of breathing of diving...
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    diving equipment used by divers other than freedivers, is underwater breathing apparatus, such as scuba equipment, and surface-supplied diving equipment,...
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  • ambient pressure, the effects of breathing gases at raised ambient pressure, effects caused by the use of breathing apparatus, and sensory impairment. All...
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    Oxygen mask (category Medical breathing apparatus)
    An oxygen mask is a mask that provides a method to transfer breathing oxygen gas from a storage tank to the lungs. Oxygen masks may cover only the nose...
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    once the surface was reached, were not considered. The apparatus itself comprises a rubber breathing/buoyancy bag, which contains a canister of barium hydroxide...
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  • A breathing circuit is those parts of a breathing apparatus (or breathing system), which direct the flow of supplied breathing gas to, and sometimes from...
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  • 1952) was a French inventor and pioneer in the field of underwater breathing apparatus, respirators and gas masks. He was pivotal in the transition of diving...
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    equipment at all, or a wide range of equipment which may include breathing apparatus, environmental protective clothing, aids to vision, communication...
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    attributable to breathing. The total work of breathing when using a breathing apparatus is the sum of the physiological work of breathing and the mechanical...
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    Diving rebreather (category Underwater breathing apparatus)
    A Diving rebreather is an underwater breathing apparatus that absorbs the carbon dioxide of a diver's exhaled breath to permit the rebreathing (recycling)...
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