Scientific dogma has the respiration process involving only two elements-oxygen and carbon dioxide. Specifically, the delivery of oxygen from lungs to tissues, and the removal of the waste product, ...

Radiation oncologists at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., are using respiratory gating technology to synchronize delivery of radiation with the patient's own respiratory cycle. The technique ...

New research suggests that the natural rhythm of breathing plays an important role in organizing the brain activity required for human memory. The study indicates that successful memory retrieval is ...

The signature boom-bust cycling of childhood respiratory diseases was long attributed to environmental cycling. However, the effect of school holidays on rates of social contact amongst children is ...

The delivery of positive-pressure–ventilator support without an endotracheal tube was first studied in the 1930s. 1 Now known as noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation (NPPV), it can be used to ...

Pulsus paradoxus is the term used to describe an exaggerated blood pressure variation with the respiratory cycle. This can be found in cardiac tamponade or during chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

Note in lead V5 rhythm strip how the amplitude of the QRS complexes vary, however not beat to beat as would be seen in electrical alternans. This variation can occur with the respiratory cycle as the ...