Cases from the aerospace medicine residents' teaching file. The oxygen paradox.
A student aviator experiences a transient loss of consciousness following a hypoxia demonstration after being placed on 100% oxygen. Presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and aeromedical implications surrounding the oxygen paradox phenomenon are discussed.
DeLonga
David M
DM
Naval Operational Medicine Institute, Pensacola, FL, USA.
D000337:Aerospace Medicine; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000150:complications* / Q000378:metabolism*; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000503:physiopathology; D010100:Oxygen / Q000378:metabolism*; D013035:Spasm / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D014474:Unconsciousness / Q000209:etiology*
D010100:Oxygen