Oxygen toxicity is a condition resulting from the harmful effects of breathing molecular oxygen (O 2) at increased partial pressures. Severe cases can...

the use of oxygen enriched air at altitude. Acute indications for therapy include hypoxemia (low blood oxygen levels), carbon monoxide toxicity and cluster...

compressed gas form. Oxygen gas (O 2) can be toxic at elevated partial pressures, leading to convulsions and other health problems. Oxygen toxicity usually begins...

sickness, it increases the risks of oxygen toxicity and fire. Though not generally referred to as nitrox, an oxygen-enriched air mixture is routinely provided...

of oxygen toxicity: central nervous system (CNS) toxicity, and pulmonary and ocular toxicity. Temporary exposure to high partial pressures of oxygen at...

1.00 which means 100% oxygen. FIO2 is typically maintained below 0.5 even with mechanical ventilation, to avoid oxygen toxicity, but there are applications...

oxygen therapy to those who do not require it." Oxygen toxicity – Toxic effects of breathing oxygen at high partial pressures Alcohol inhalation – Method...

(21% oxygen) to reduce the risk of oxygen toxicity. The exhaled treatment gas must be removed from the chamber to prevent the buildup of oxygen, which...

act as second messengers that can either protect against singlet oxygen induced toxicity or initiate programmed cell death. Levels of jasmonate play a key...

reduce nitrogen narcosis and to avoid the dangers of oxygen toxicity. Heliox is a mixture of oxygen and helium and is often used in the deep phase of a...

disorders Chronic dysbaric disorders Hyperbaric oxygen therapy basis – Physiology and pathology Oxygen toxicity Pressure and inert gas effects Nitrogen narcosis...

self contained breathing gas recycling apparatus Oxygen toxicity – Toxic effects of breathing oxygen at high partial pressures Solo diving – Recreational...

pale blue gas with a distinctively pungent smell. It is an allotrope of oxygen that is much less stable than the diatomic allotrope O 2, breaking down...

of nitrogen and oxygen in the gas mixture when diving deeper, to reduce the effects of narcosis and to avoid the risk of oxygen toxicity. This is complicated...

pressure of oxygen (pO2) of the gas mix exceeds an acceptable limit. This limit is based on risk of central nervous system oxygen toxicity, and is somewhat...

condition in which the body or a region of the body is deprived of adequate oxygen supply at the tissue level. Hypoxia may be classified as either generalized...

and one oxygen atom in 1800, thereby initiating the modern era of research exclusively focused on carbon monoxide. The mechanism for toxicity was first...

to be a factor increasing risk of central nervous system oxygen toxicity convulsions. Toxicity of contaminants is generally a function of concentration...

Asphyxia or asphyxiation is a condition of deficient supply of oxygen to the body which arises from abnormal breathing.[citation needed] Asphyxia causes...

pulmonary disease and similar lung problems, the clinical features of oxygen toxicity are due to high carbon dioxide content in the blood (hypercapnia)....

the necessary amount of oxygen for human respiration, and the amount that is toxic, is set by the partial pressure of oxygen alone. This is true across...

exhaled breath which has oxygen added and is recirculated. Oxygen rebreathers are severely depth-limited due to oxygen toxicity risk, which increases with...

avoiding hyperbaric oxygen toxicity, while normobaric and hypobaric applications can use the relatively trivially simple oxygen rebreather technology...

breathing gas is required below 60 metres (200 ft) to lessen the risk of oxygen toxicity. For some recreational diving agencies, "Deep diving", or "Deep diver"...

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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...

pressures. oxygen toxicity unit Unit of exposure to toxic concentrations of oxygen in breathing gas, primarily in connection with pulmonary oxygen toxicity and...

pressure of nitrogen dissolved in nerve tissue, and possibly acute oxygen toxicity. The term is not in widespread use at present. dehydration A condition...

layer of the Optical Transport Network Oxygen toxicity unit, a measure of exposure to a toxic concentration of oxygen in breathing gas. Michael Otu (1925–2006)...

disorientation or nausea; early signs of oxygen toxicity causing visual disturbances; carbon dioxide toxicity caused by rebreather scrubber malfunction...