Breathing gas, the Glossary
A breathing gas is a mixture of gaseous chemical elements and compounds used for respiration.[1]
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Aircraft
An aircraft (aircraft) is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air.
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Ambient pressure
The ambient pressure on an object is the pressure of the surrounding medium, such as a gas or liquid, in contact with the object.
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Anaesthetic machine
An anaesthetic machine (British English) or anesthesia machine (American English) is a medical device used to generate and mix a fresh gas flow of medical gases and inhalational anaesthetic agents for the purpose of inducing and maintaining anaesthesia.
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Anesthesia
Anesthesia or anaesthesia is a state of controlled, temporary loss of sensation or awareness that is induced for medical or veterinary purposes.
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Anesthesiology
Anesthesiology or anaesthesiology is the medical specialty concerned with the total perioperative care of patients before, during and after surgery.
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Argon
Argon is a chemical element; it has symbol Ar and atomic number 18. Breathing gas and Argon are industrial gases.
Argox
Argox is the informal name for a scuba diving breathing gas consisting of argon and oxygen. Breathing gas and argox are breathing gases.
Atmosphere of Earth
The atmosphere of Earth is composed of a layer of gas mixture that surrounds the Earth's planetary surface (both lands and oceans), known collectively as air, with variable quantities of suspended aerosols and particulates (which create weather features such as clouds and hazes), all retained by Earth's gravity. Breathing gas and atmosphere of Earth are breathing gases.
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Bar (unit)
The bar is a metric unit of pressure defined as 100,000 Pa (100 kPa), though not part of the International System of Units (SI).
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Breathing
Breathing (spiration or ventilation) is the rhythmical process of moving air into (inhalation) and out of (exhalation) the lungs to facilitate gas exchange with the internal environment, mostly to flush out carbon dioxide and bring in oxygen.
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Breathing gas
A breathing gas is a mixture of gaseous chemical elements and compounds used for respiration. Breathing gas and breathing gas are breathing apparatus components, breathing gases and industrial gases.
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Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula. Breathing gas and Carbon dioxide are industrial gases.
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Carbon dioxide scrubber
A carbon dioxide scrubber is a piece of equipment that absorbs carbon dioxide (CO2).
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Carbon monoxide
Carbon monoxide (chemical formula CO) is a poisonous, flammable gas that is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and slightly less dense than air. Breathing gas and Carbon monoxide are industrial gases.
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Carbon monoxide detector
A carbon monoxide detector or CO detector is a device that detects the presence of the carbon monoxide (CO) gas to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Carbon monoxide poisoning
Carbon monoxide poisoning typically occurs from breathing in carbon monoxide (CO) at excessive levels.
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Cardiac arrest
Cardiac arrest, also known as sudden cardiac arrest, is when the heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops beating.
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a type of progressive lung disease characterized by long-term respiratory symptoms and airflow limitation.
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Cluster headache
Cluster headache is a neurological disorder characterized by recurrent severe headaches on one side of the head, typically around the eye(s).
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Combustion
Combustion, or burning, is a high-temperature exothermic redox chemical reaction between a fuel (the reductant) and an oxidant, usually atmospheric oxygen, that produces oxidized, often gaseous products, in a mixture termed as smoke.
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Commercial diving
Commercial diving may be considered an application of professional diving where the diver engages in underwater work for industrial, construction, engineering, maintenance or other commercial purposes which are similar to work done out of the water, and where the diving is usually secondary to the work.
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Corrosion
Corrosion is a natural process that converts a refined metal into a more chemically stable oxide.
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Cryogenics
In physics, cryogenics is the production and behaviour of materials at very low temperatures. Breathing gas and cryogenics are industrial gases.
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Cystic fibrosis
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a genetic disorder inherited in an autosomal recessive manner that impairs the normal clearance of mucus from the lungs, which facilitates the colonization and infection of the lungs by bacteria, notably Staphylococcus aureus.
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Decompression (diving)
The decompression of a diver is the reduction in ambient pressure experienced during ascent from depth.
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Decompression practice
To prevent or minimize decompression sickness, divers must properly plan and monitor decompression.
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Decompression sickness
Decompression sickness (DCS; also called divers' disease, the bends, aerobullosis, and caisson disease) is a medical condition caused by dissolved gases emerging from solution as bubbles inside the body tissues during decompression.
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Deep diving
Deep diving is underwater diving to a depth beyond the norm accepted by the associated community.
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Dehydration
In physiology, dehydration is a lack of total body water, with an accompanying disruption of metabolic processes.
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Density
Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is a substance's mass per unit of volume.
Desflurane
Desflurane (1,2,2,2-tetrafluoroethyl difluoromethyl ether) is a highly fluorinated methyl ethyl ether used for maintenance of general anesthesia.
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Developed country
A developed country, or advanced country, is a sovereign state that has a high quality of life, developed economy, and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations.
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Dew point
The dew point of a given body of air is the temperature to which it must be cooled to become saturated with water vapor.
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Diatomic molecule
Diatomic molecules are molecules composed of only two atoms, of the same or different chemical elements.
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Diving air compressor
A diving air compressor is a breathing air compressor that can provide breathing air directly to a surface-supplied diver, or fill diving cylinders with high-pressure air pure enough to be used as a hyperbaric breathing gas.
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Diving chamber
A diving chamber is a vessel for human occupation, which may have an entrance that can be sealed to hold an internal pressure significantly higher than ambient pressure, a pressurised gas system to control the internal pressure, and a supply of breathing gas for the occupants.
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Diving cylinder
A diving cylinder or diving gas cylinder is a gas cylinder used to store and transport high pressure gas used in diving operations. Breathing gas and diving cylinder are breathing gases.
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Diving suit
A diving suit is a garment or device designed to protect a diver from the underwater environment.
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Dry suit
A dry suit or drysuit provides the wearer with environmental protection by way of thermal insulation and exclusion of water, and is worn by divers, boaters, water sports enthusiasts, and others who work or play in or near cold or contaminated water.
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Dust
Dust is made of fine particles of solid matter.
Electro-galvanic oxygen sensor
An electro-galvanic fuel cell is an electrochemical device which consumes a fuel to produce an electrical output by a chemical reaction.
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Emphysema
Emphysema is any air-filled enlargement in the body's tissues.
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Equivalent air depth
The equivalent air depth (EAD) is a way of approximating the decompression requirements of breathing gas mixtures that contain nitrogen and oxygen in different proportions to those in air, known as nitrox.
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Equivalent narcotic depth
Equivalent narcotic depth (END) (historically also equivalent nitrogen depth) is used in technical diving as a way of estimating the narcotic effect of a breathing gas mixture, such as nitrox, heliox or trimix.
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Exhaust gas
Exhaust gas or flue gas is emitted as a result of the combustion of fuels such as natural gas, gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, fuel oil, biodiesel blends, or coal.
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Explosion
An explosion is a rapid expansion in volume of a given amount of matter associated with an extreme outward release of energy, usually with the generation of high temperatures and release of high-pressure gases.
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Fractional distillation
Fractional distillation is the separation of a mixture into its component parts, or fractions.
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Frogman
A frogman is someone who is trained in scuba diving or swimming underwater in a tactical capacity that includes military, and in some European countries, police work.
Fuel
A fuel is any material that can be made to react with other substances so that it releases energy as thermal energy or to be used for work.
Gas blending
Gas blending is the process of mixing gases for a specific purpose where the composition of the resulting mixture is specified and controlled. Breathing gas and gas blending are industrial gases.
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Gas blending for scuba diving
Gas blending for scuba diving (or gas mixing) is the filling of diving cylinders with non-air breathing gases such as nitrox, trimix and heliox. Breathing gas and gas blending for scuba diving are breathing gases.
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Gas cylinder
A gas cylinder is a pressure vessel for storage and containment of gases at above atmospheric pressure. Breathing gas and gas cylinder are industrial gases.
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General anaesthesia
General anaesthesia (UK) or general anesthesia (US) is a method of medically inducing loss of consciousness that renders a patient unarousable even with painful stimuli.
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General anaesthetic
General anaesthetics (or anesthetics) are often defined as compounds that induce a loss of consciousness in humans or loss of righting reflex in animals.
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Heat exhaustion
Heat exhaustion is a heat-related illness characterized by the body's inability to effectively cool itself, typically occurring in high ambient temperatures or during intense physical exertion.
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Heliox
Heliox is a breathing gas mixture of helium (He) and oxygen (O2). Breathing gas and Heliox are breathing gases.
Helium
Helium (from lit) is a chemical element; it has symbol He and atomic number 2.
Helium analyzer
A Helium analyzer is an instrument used to identify the presence and concentration of helium in a mixture of gases. Breathing gas and helium analyzer are breathing gases.
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High altitude breathing apparatus
High altitude breathing apparatus is a breathing apparatus which allows a person to breathe more effectively at an altitude where the partial pressure of oxygen in the ambient atmospheric air is insufficient for the task or to sustain consciousness or human life over the long or short term.
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High-pressure nervous syndrome
High-pressure nervous syndrome (HPNS – also known as high-pressure neurological syndrome) is a neurological and physiological diving disorder which can result when a diver descends below about using a breathing gas containing helium.
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Hopcalite
Hopcalite is the trade name for a number of mixtures that mainly consist of oxides of copper and manganese, which are used as catalysts for the conversion of carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide when exposed to the oxygen in the air at room temperature.
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Human body
The human body is the entire structure of a human being.
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Humus
In classical soil science, humus is the dark organic matter in soil that is formed by the decomposition of plant and animal matter.
Hydreliox
Hydreliox is an exotic breathing gas mixture of hydrogen, helium, and oxygen. Breathing gas and Hydreliox are breathing gases.
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Hydrocarbon
In organic chemistry, a hydrocarbon is an organic compound consisting entirely of hydrogen and carbon.
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Hydrogen
Hydrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol H and atomic number 1.
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Hydrox (breathing gas)
Hydrox, a gas mixture of hydrogen and oxygen, is occasionally used as an experimental breathing gas in very deep diving. Breathing gas and hydrox (breathing gas) are breathing gases.
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Hyperbaric medicine
Hyperbaric medicine is a medical treatment in which an increase in barometric pressure over ambient pressure is employed increasing the partial pressures of all gases present in the compressed air.
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Hypercapnia
Hypercapnia (from the Greek hyper.
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Hypoxia (medicine)
Hypoxia is a condition in which the body or a region of the body is deprived of adequate oxygen supply at the tissue level.
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Inert gas
An inert gas is a gas that does not readily undergo chemical reactions with other chemical substances and therefore does not readily form chemical compounds. Breathing gas and inert gas are industrial gases.
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Inhalational anesthetic
An inhalational anesthetic is a chemical compound possessing general anesthetic properties that is delivered via inhalation.
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Internal combustion engine
An internal combustion engine (ICE or IC engine) is a heat engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber that is an integral part of the working fluid flow circuit.
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International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station assembled and maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada).
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Isoflurane
Isoflurane, sold under the brand name Forane among others, is a general anesthetic.
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Laryngeal mask airway
A laryngeal mask airway (LMA), also known as laryngeal mask, is a medical device that keeps a patient's airway open during anaesthesia or while they are unconscious.
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Life-support system
A life-support system is the combination of equipment that allows survival in an environment or situation that would not support that life in its absence.
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Lipid pneumonia
Lipoid pneumonia is a specific form of lung inflammation (pneumonia) that develops when lipids enter the bronchial tree.
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Liquid air
Liquid air is air that has been cooled to very low temperatures (cryogenic temperatures), so that it has condensed into a pale blue mobile liquid. Breathing gas and liquid air are industrial gases.
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Lubricant
A lubricant (sometimes shortened to lube) is a substance that helps to reduce friction between surfaces in mutual contact, which ultimately reduces the heat generated when the surfaces move.
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Lung
The lungs are the central organs of the respiratory system in humans and some other animals, including tetrapods, some snails and a small number of fish.
Maximum operating depth
In underwater diving activities such as saturation diving, technical diving and nitrox diving, the maximum operating depth (MOD) of a breathing gas is the depth below which the partial pressure of oxygen (pO2) of the gas mix exceeds an acceptable limit. Breathing gas and maximum operating depth are breathing gases.
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Mechanism of diving regulators
The mechanism of diving regulators is the arrangement of components and function of gas pressure regulators used in the systems which supply breathing gases for underwater diving.
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Medical prescription
A prescription, often abbreviated or Rx, is a formal communication from a physician or other registered healthcare professional to a pharmacist, authorizing them to dispense a specific prescription drug for a specific patient.
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Metabolism (from μεταβολή metabolē, "change") is the set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in organisms.
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Metre sea water
The metre (or meter) sea water (msw) is a metric unit of pressure used in underwater diving.
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Monitoring (medicine)
In medicine, monitoring is the observation of a disease, condition or one or several medical parameters over time.
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Mountaineering
Mountaineering, mountain climbing, or alpinism is a set of outdoor activities that involves ascending mountains.
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Nasal cannula
The nasal cannula (NC) is a device used to deliver supplemental oxygen or increased airflow to a patient or person in need of respiratory help.
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Natural gas
Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane (95%) in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes.
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Neon
Neon is a chemical element; it has symbol Ne and atomic number 10. Breathing gas and Neon are industrial gases.
Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
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Nitrogen
Nitrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol N and atomic number 7. Breathing gas and Nitrogen are industrial gases.
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Nitrogen narcosis
Narcosis while diving (also known as nitrogen narcosis, inert gas narcosis, raptures of the deep, Martini effect) is a reversible alteration in consciousness that occurs while diving at depth.
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Nitrous oxide
Nitrous oxide (dinitrogen oxide or dinitrogen monoxide), commonly known as laughing gas, nitrous, nitro, or nos, is a chemical compound, an oxide of nitrogen with the formula. Breathing gas and nitrous oxide are industrial gases.
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Nitrox
Nitrox refers to any gas mixture composed (excepting trace gases) of nitrogen and oxygen. Breathing gas and nitrox are breathing gases.
Nurse anesthetist
A nurse anesthetist is an advanced practice nurse who administers anesthesia for surgery or other medical procedures.
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Organ (biology)
In a multicellular organism, an organ is a collection of tissues joined in a structural unit to serve a common function.
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Oxygen
Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8. Breathing gas and Oxygen are breathing gases.
Oxygen concentrator
An oxygen concentrator is a device that concentrates the oxygen from a gas supply (typically ambient air) by selectively removing nitrogen to supply an oxygen-enriched product gas stream. Breathing gas and oxygen concentrator are industrial gases.
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Oxygen saturation
Oxygen saturation (symbol SO2) is a relative measure of the concentration of oxygen that is dissolved or carried in a given medium as a proportion of the maximal concentration that can be dissolved in that medium at the given temperature.
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Oxygen tank
An oxygen tank is an oxygen storage vessel, which is either held under pressure in gas cylinders, referred to in the industry as high pressure oxygen cylinders, or as liquid oxygen in a cryogenic storage tank.
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Oxygen therapy
Oxygen therapy, also referred to as supplemental oxygen, is the use of oxygen as medical treatment.
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Oxygen toxicity
Oxygen toxicity is a condition resulting from the harmful effects of breathing molecular oxygen at increased partial pressures.
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Paralysis
Paralysis (paralyses; also known as plegia) is a loss of motor function in one or more muscles.
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Partial pressure
In a mixture of gases, each constituent gas has a partial pressure which is the notional pressure of that constituent gas as if it alone occupied the entire volume of the original mixture at the same temperature.
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Pascal (unit)
The pascal (symbol: Pa) is the unit of pressure in the International System of Units (SI).
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Portable oxygen concentrator
A portable oxygen concentrator (POC) is a device used to provide oxygen therapy to people that require greater oxygen concentrations than the levels of ambient air.
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Pressure
Pressure (symbol: p or P) is the force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object per unit area over which that force is distributed.
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Pressure swing adsorption
Pressure swing adsorption (PSA) is a technique used to separate some gas species from a mixture of gases (typically air) under pressure according to the species' molecular characteristics and affinity for an adsorbent material. Breathing gas and pressure swing adsorption are industrial gases.
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Professional diving
Professional diving is underwater diving where the divers are paid for their work.
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Rebreather
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 unused oxygen content, and unused inert content when present, of each breath.
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Respirator
A respirator is a device designed to protect the wearer from inhaling hazardous atmospheres including lead fumes, vapours, gases and particulate matter such as dusts and airborne pathogens such as viruses.
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Respiratory failure
Respiratory failure results from inadequate gas exchange by the respiratory system, meaning that the arterial oxygen, carbon dioxide, or both cannot be kept at normal levels.
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Saturation diving
Saturation diving is diving for periods long enough to bring all tissues into equilibrium with the partial pressures of the inert components of the breathing gas used.
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Scuba diving
Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and therefore has a limited but variable endurance.
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Scuba set
A scuba set, 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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Seal (mechanical)
A seal is a device or material that helps join systems, mechanisms or other materials together by preventing leakage (e.g. in a pumping system), containing pressure, or excluding contamination.
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Seizure
A seizure is a period of symptoms due to abnormally excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain.
Sevoflurane
Sevoflurane, sold under the brand name Sevorane, among others, is a sweet-smelling, nonflammable, highly fluorinated methyl isopropyl ether used as an inhalational anaesthetic for induction and maintenance of general anesthesia.
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Smoke
Smoke is a suspension of airborne particulates and gases emitted when a material undergoes combustion or pyrolysis, together with the quantity of air that is entrained or otherwise mixed into the mass.
Soda lime
Soda lime, a mixture of sodium hydroxide (NaOH) and calcium oxide (CaO), is used in granular form within recirculating breathing environments like general anesthesia and its breathing circuit, submarines, rebreathers, and hyperbaric chambers and underwater habitats.
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South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society
The South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society (SPUMS) is a primary source of information for diving and hyperbaric medicine physiology worldwide.
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Space suit
A space suit or spacesuit is a garment worn to keep a human alive in the harsh environment of outer space, vacuum and temperature extremes.
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Spacecraft
A spacecraft is a vehicle that is designed to fly and operate in outer space.
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Spaceflight
Spaceflight (or space flight) is an application of astronautics to fly objects, usually spacecraft, into or through outer space, either with or without humans on board.
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Spinal cord
The spinal cord is a long, thin, tubular structure made up of nervous tissue that extends from the medulla oblongata in the brainstem to the lumbar region of the vertebral column (backbone) of vertebrate animals.
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Submarine
A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.
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Suction (medicine)
In medicine, devices are sometimes necessary to create suction.
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Surface-supplied diving
Surface-supplied diving is a mode of underwater diving using equipment supplied with breathing gas through a diver's umbilical from the surface, either from the shore or from a diving support vessel, sometimes indirectly via a diving bell.
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Technical diving
Technical diving (also referred to as tec diving or tech diving) is scuba diving that exceeds the agency-specified limits of recreational diving for non-professional purposes.
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Theories of general anaesthetic action
A general anaesthetic (or anesthetic) is a drug that brings about a reversible loss of consciousness.
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Therapy
A therapy or medical treatment is the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a medical diagnosis.
Thermal insulation
Thermal insulation is the reduction of heat transfer (i.e., the transfer of thermal energy between objects of differing temperature) between objects in thermal contact or in range of radiative influence.
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Tissue (biology)
In biology, tissue is an assembly of similar cells and their extracellular matrix from the same embryonic origin that together carry out a specific function.
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Toxicity
Toxicity is the degree to which a chemical substance or a particular mixture of substances can damage an organism.
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Tracheal tube
A tracheal tube is a catheter that is inserted into the trachea for the primary purpose of establishing and maintaining a patent airway and to ensure the adequate exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide.
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Trademark
A trademark (also written trade mark or trade-mark) is a type of intellectual property consisting of a recognizable sign, design, or expression that identifies a product or service from a particular source and distinguishes it from others.
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Trimix (breathing gas)
Trimix is a breathing gas consisting of oxygen, helium and nitrogen and is used in deep commercial diving, during the deep phase of dives carried out using technical diving techniques, and in advanced recreational diving. Breathing gas and Trimix (breathing gas) are breathing gases.
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Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society
The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) is an organization based in the US which supports research on matters of hyperbaric medicine and physiology, and provides a certificate of added qualification for physicians with an unrestricted license to practice medicine and for limited licensed practitioners, at the completion of the Program for Advanced Training in Hyperbaric Medicine.
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Underwater environment
An underwater environment is a environment of, and immersed in, liquid water in a natural or artificial feature (called a body of water), such as an ocean, sea, lake, pond, reservoir, river, canal, or aquifer.
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Valve
A valve is a device or natural object that regulates, directs or controls the flow of a fluid (gases, liquids, fluidized solids, or slurries) by opening, closing, or partially obstructing various passageways.
Ventilator
A ventilator is a type of breathing apparatus, a class of medical technology that provides mechanical ventilation by moving breathable air into and out of the lungs, to deliver breaths to a patient who is physically unable to breathe, or breathing insufficiently.
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Viscosity
The viscosity of a fluid is a measure of its resistance to deformation at a given rate.
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Volatility (chemistry)
In chemistry, volatility is a material quality which describes how readily a substance vaporizes.
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Welding
Welding is a fabrication process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, primarily by using high temperature to melt the parts together and allow them to cool, causing fusion.
WHO Model List of Essential Medicines
The WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (aka Essential Medicines List or EML), published by the World Health Organization (WHO), contains the medications considered to be most effective and safe to meet the most important needs in a health system.
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Work of breathing
Work of breathing (WOB) is the energy expended to inhale and exhale a breathing gas.
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Xenon
Xenon is a chemical element; it has symbol Xe and atomic number 54. Breathing gas and Xenon are industrial gases.
See also
Breathing apparatus components
- Breathing gas
Breathing gases
- Argox
- Atmosphere of Earth
- Breathing gas
- Cascade filling system
- Compressed air
- Diving cylinder
- Gas blending for scuba diving
- Heliox
- Helium analyzer
- Hydreliox
- Hydrox (breathing gas)
- Lean air
- Maximum operating depth
- Nitrous oxide (medication)
- Nitrox
- Oxygen
- Oxygen evolution
- Oxygen sensor
- Trimix (breathing gas)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathing_gas
Also known as Antena neox, Breathing air, Breathing gas analysis, Breathing gas for diving, Breathing gas quality, Breathing gases, Diluent gas, Hyperoxic breathing gas, Hypoxic breathing gas, Minimum operating depth, Neonox, Neox, Normoxic breathing gas.
, Gas blending for scuba diving, Gas cylinder, General anaesthesia, General anaesthetic, Heat exhaustion, Heliox, Helium, Helium analyzer, High altitude breathing apparatus, High-pressure nervous syndrome, Hopcalite, Human body, Humus, Hydreliox, Hydrocarbon, Hydrogen, Hydrox (breathing gas), Hyperbaric medicine, Hypercapnia, Hypoxia (medicine), Inert gas, Inhalational anesthetic, Internal combustion engine, International Space Station, Isoflurane, Laryngeal mask airway, Life-support system, Lipid pneumonia, Liquid air, Lubricant, Lung, Maximum operating depth, Mechanism of diving regulators, Medical prescription, Metabolism, Metre sea water, Monitoring (medicine), Mountaineering, Nasal cannula, Natural gas, Neon, Netherlands, Nitrogen, Nitrogen narcosis, Nitrous oxide, Nitrox, Nurse anesthetist, Organ (biology), Oxygen, Oxygen concentrator, Oxygen saturation, Oxygen tank, Oxygen therapy, Oxygen toxicity, Paralysis, Partial pressure, Pascal (unit), Portable oxygen concentrator, Pressure, Pressure swing adsorption, Professional diving, Rebreather, Respirator, Respiratory failure, Saturation diving, Scuba diving, Scuba set, Seal (mechanical), Seizure, Sevoflurane, Smoke, Soda lime, South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society, Space suit, Spacecraft, Spaceflight, Spinal cord, Submarine, Suction (medicine), Surface-supplied diving, Technical diving, Theories of general anaesthetic action, Therapy, Thermal insulation, Tissue (biology), Toxicity, Tracheal tube, Trademark, Trimix (breathing gas), Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, Underwater environment, Valve, Ventilator, Viscosity, Volatility (chemistry), Welding, WHO Model List of Essential Medicines, Work of breathing, Xenon.