The air would be so thin that even the best climber would have no choice but to use supplemental oxygen. Why? Because of the many factors which affect atmospheric pressure. Pioneering scientists ...

The attorney of the parents of a 5-year-old Thomas Cooper, who died in a hyperbaric chamber explosion in Troy, Michigan, on ...

Annie Cooper, of Royal Oak, couldn't free her 5-year-old son, Thomas, from a hyperbaric chamber as flames engulfed him on the ...

At 18,000 feet, the atmosphere is half as dense as it is on the ground, and at altitudes above 40/000 feet, air is so thin and the amount of oxygen so small that pressure oxygen masks no longer do ...

The Michigan mom of 5-year-old Thomas Cooper, who died in a hyperbaric chamber on Jan. 31, jumped toward flames in the chamber to try to save her son after it exploded.

improving the level of oxygen in the blood and decreasing the carbon dioxide. These machines are called “bilevel” because they have two air pressure settings. When you breathe in, BPAP ...