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This is a way of giving oxygen through tubes that fit into the nostrils.

A method to detect and quantify myocardial ischaemia. An intravenously injected radionuclide that is taken up by normal heart muscle can be imaged using a gamma camera.

Myocardial stunning is the temporary loss of contractile function of heart muscle cells following a brief period of severe ischaemia (reduced blood flow), despite the restoration of normal blood supply. The affected heart muscle is still alive (it has not undergone irreversible necrosis), but it takes hours to days to recover its normal function after … Read more