Respiration During Snow Burial Using an Artificial Air Pocket

Hypercapnia increases core temperature cooling rate during snow burial.

Previous retrospective studies report a core body temperature cooling rate of 3 degrees C/h during avalanche burial. Hypercapnia occurs during avalanche burial secondary to rebreathing expired air, and the effect of hypercapnia on hypothermia during avalanche burial is unknown. The objective of this study was to determine the core temperature cooling rate during snow burial under normocapnic an...

Thymectomy during Myasthenic Crisis under Artificial Respiration.

A 34-year-old man was diagnosed with thymoma, which was evaluated preoperatively as stage II or III, with myasthenia gravis (MG). The size of the tumor was 70 × 44 × 80 mm. No invasion to neighboring organs was observed. Prednisolone was prescribed for stabilization of MG. However, a myasthenic crisis (MC) occurred, and intensive care, including emergent endobronchial intubation followed by art...

Artificial Respiration

lowering the arms gave still less favourable results. Howard's direct method of alternately compressing the lower chest wall by the spread hands and letting go sharply was found to cause a much larger air entry, but still below the normal; but it is conducted in the supine attitude which, in many cases, as in drowning, prevent other useful indications from being fulfilled and is sometimes subje...

Artificial respiration, the history of an idea.

INTRODUCTION THE SIMPLE automatic act of breathing is essential to life, but may be interrupted in a variety of ways. Cessation of this act of breathing is not necessarily fatal if there is some means available to produce artificial respiration. However, should this assistance be lacking then death will always supervene. This article proposes to sketch the history of the various means of artifi...

Artificial Respiration Explained