OXYGEN:2 HOLED IN THE HEART PATIENT DIES IN LAGOS
BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU,LAGOS,NIGERIA.....
A patient whose full
identities were not disclosed to The News office Desk of the E.N.M.Paedia
Express Multimedia Group of Lagos,Nigeria and believed to be in his early 40
with two holes in his heart has died in Lagos,Nigeria after a brief
illness recently...
An impeccable source
close to the family of the deceased
said the departed soul had been hospitalized in a Lagos private hospital for treatment but was eventually discharged after what they felt had gotten
to a manageable level in his treatment regime at the A.B.10 Hospital at
College Road in Ifako -Ijaiye,Lagos,Nigeria...
The source explained that his late friend was placed on an oxygen
assisted life support while on admission
at the A.B.10 Hospital as he had continually gasped for air and upon
discharge he and the family members felt that the worst was over...
The source noted that
he was taken aback when the wife of his deceased friend who was to have gone to
the Lagos University Teaching Hospital [L.U.T.H.]based on medical recommendations from A.B.10
Hospitals could not eventually make it due to shortness of breath as he died in
his sleep...
The source added that from the hurry to discharge the
deceased he was with the notion that the hospital wished to use the oxygen for
another patient as they seems they
probably had a shortage of life supporting machines.
Oxygen is the chemical
element with the symbol O and atomic
number 8. It is a member of the chalcogen group in the periodic
table, a highly reactive nonmetal, and
an oxidizing agent that readily forms oxides with most
elements as well as with other compounds.
After hydrogen
and helium,
oxygen is the third-most abundant element in the
universe by mass. At standard temperature and pressure,
two atoms of the element bind to form dioxygen, a colorless and odorless diatomic
gas with the formula O2. Diatomic oxygen gas constitutes 20.95% of the Earth's atmosphere. As compounds including oxides, the element makes up almost half of the Earth's crust.[2]
Dioxygen provides the energy released in combustion[3] and aerobic cellular respiration,[4] and many major classes of organic molecules in living organisms contain oxygen atoms, such as proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and fats, as do the major constituent inorganic compounds of animal shells, teeth, and bone. Most of the mass of living organisms is oxygen as a component of water, the major constituent of lifeforms. Oxygen is continuously replenished in Earth's atmosphere by photosynthesis, which uses the energy of sunlight to produce oxygen from water and carbon dioxide. Oxygen is too chemically reactive to remain a free element in air without being continuously replenished by the photosynthetic action of living organisms. Another form (allotrope) of oxygen, ozone (O
3), strongly absorbs ultraviolet UVB radiation and the high-altitude ozone layer helps protect the biosphere from ultraviolet radiation. However, ozone present at the surface is a byproduct of smog and thus a pollutant.
Oxygen was isolated by Michael Sendivogius before 1604, but it is commonly believed that the element was discovered independently by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, in Uppsala, in 1773 or earlier, and Joseph Priestley in Wiltshire, in 1774. Priority is often given for Priestley because his work was published first. Priestley, however, called oxygen "dephlogisticated air", and did not recognize it as a chemical element. The name oxygen was coined in 1777 by Antoine Lavoisier, who first recognized oxygen as a chemical element and correctly characterized the role it plays in combustion.
Common uses of oxygen include production of steel, plastics and textiles, brazing, welding and cutting of steels and other metals, rocket propellant, oxygen therapy, and life support systems in aircraft, submarines, spaceflight and diving.
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