BACKGROUND The benefit of administering supplementary oxygen during elective Caesarean section under regional anaesthesia is controversial. It has been hypothesized that its use would improve fetal oxygenation in the event of a prolonged uterine incision-to-delivery (U-D) interval. Our aim was to test this hypothesis in a prospective, randomized, double-blinded, controlled study. METHODS We a...

THE COEFFICIENT of oxygen utilization is defined as the arteriovenous difference in oxygen concentration divided by the concentration of oxygen in the arterial blood. Multiplication of the ratio by 100 converts the coefficient into the per cent of arterial oxygen which is removed by the tissue. The term "oxygen extraction ratio" is frequently used as a synonym. Conflicting reports have appeared...

The effect of endotoxin upon oxygen consumption in a peripheral vascular bed was assessed in a canine hind-limb preparation. The left iliac vessels in 12 adult male mongrel dogs were isolated, the artery cannulated proximally and distally such that arterial inflow could be routed through a roller pump, and a nonocclusive catheter placed in the vein. Oxygen consumption was then calculated as the...

The deleterious effects of disorder are amplified in lower dimensions, where long-range coherence is, at best, only marginally stable. A case in point is the destruction of superconductivity in ultrathin granular' and continuous metal films. The disorder is parametrized by the film sheet resistance and the data suggest a zero-temperature threshold for quenching global superconducting coherence ...

The paper presents the using of amperometric sensors in measurements of the oxygen content in the organic solutions such as beer. The resulted data compared with spectrophotometric data.