We studied the clinical effect of oxygen-ozone treatment of lumber disc herniation. Oxygen-ozone was administered by percutaneous injection (35-yong/ml), 6-15 ml into the intralumbar disc, and a few patients needed re-injection 48 hours later. We treated 323 patients with 433 discs with a total effective rate of 77.7%. Treatment of lumber disc herniation by oxygen-ozone was simple, safe and eff...

A series of static hybrid rocket firings were done in a laboratory scale motor using paraffin wax fuel with gaseous oxygen and nitrous oxide oxidizers. A five element swirl injector was used to inject the oxidizer at the head end of the motor. A pyrotechnic igniter was used to initiate the combustion. The combustion of fuel grain was carried out for a fixed duration and at different oxidizer in...

This study aims to evaluate the use of oxidation reduction potential (ORP) to regulate the injection of a small amount of oxygen into an anaerobic digester for reducing H2S concentration in biogas. The results confirm that micro-oxygen injection can be effective for controlling H2S formation during anaerobic digestion without disturbing the performance of the digester. Biogas production, compos...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Previous investigators have described an association between polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) use in hip arthroplasty and cardiovascular derangement. Our purpose was to evaluate the effects of PMMA injection on patient vital signs during percutaneous vertebroplasty. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed patient charts at our institution to gather blood pressure, heart rate, ...

We hypothesized that aggregation of bacteria and hemocytes at the gill, which occurs as part of the shrimp's antibacterial immune defenses, would impair normal respiratory function and thereby disrupt aerobic metabolism. Changes in oxygen uptake and lactate accumulation were determined in Litopenaeus vannamei, the Pacific white shrimp, following injection with either saline (control) or a strai...

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) kills cancer cells by converting tumour oxygen into reactive singlet oxygen ((1)O2) using a photosensitizer. However, pre-existing hypoxia in tumours and oxygen consumption during PDT can result in an inadequate oxygen supply, which in turn hampers photodynamic efficacy. Here to overcome this problem, we create oxygen self-enriching photodynamic therapy (Oxy-PDT) by l...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Oxygen-ozone therapy is a minimally invasive treatment for lumbar disk herniation that exploits the biochemical properties of a gas mixture of oxygen and ozone. We assessed the therapeutic outcome of oxygen-ozone therapy and compared the outcome of administering medical ozone alone with the outcome of medical ozone followed by injection of a corticosteroid and an anesthet...