Hypoxia is a condition characterized by inability of the tissues to receive an adequate oxygen supply. This condition is categorized into four types; hypoxic, stagnant, anaemic, fulminating… Read More
What is Hypoxia, and What Causes It?
True or False: As a general aviation pilot who never flies above 10,000 feet, you don’t need to be concerned about the effects of hypoxia.
The answ… Read More
Changes in altitude have a profound effect on the human body. The bodyattempts to maintain a state of homeostasis or balance to ensure the optimaloperating environment for its complex chemic… Read More
Poisons act in a variety of ways, but the most deadly of them is by inhibiting enzymes. They may do this by tying up an enzyme in the form of a stable complex, by denaturing it, or by blocki… Read More