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Diaphragm in Winding Injuries · Being winded involves a blow to the epigastrium or chest. It typically induces an involuntary forced expiration followed by a brief (but terrifying) involuntary...
26 December 2024 3,592 0 View
SIDS autopsy evidence has long suggested respiratory arrest by mechanical asphyxiation (airway obstruction). This is evidenced by intrathoracic point-like hemorrhages (Tardieu petechiae),...
10 November 2024 2,967 0 View
Every organ causes disease. The diaphragm is a vital pump just as important as the heart, yet little is known about it. So, the question is why (and how) did modern medicine miss this? Sadly, this...
09 November 2024 2,083 8 View
Ventilator-induced diaphragm dysfunction is thought to be multifactorial in origin, but basically occurs by lack-of-use atrophy. This 1985 paper provides a mechanism, namely, reduced diaphragm...
09 October 2024 3,383 1 View
Electromyography waveforms reflect the electrical activity of a muscle. But does it reveal muscle spasms (transient) or cramps (prolonged spasm)? If so, what does it look like?
21 July 2024 6,077 1 View
Hypothesis: Diaphragm spasms contribute to obstructive sleep apneas and pulmonary hypertension. While in diaphragm spasm, which appears to happen most often in REM-sleep (in the form of...
31 May 2024 406 4 View
Polysomnography measures “central apnea” when there are no movements of the chest or abdominal sensors. I feel this mat not be true in all cases. What if apnea were to occur by temporary...
22 March 2024 6,968 4 View
I'm trying to find experimental evidence that confirms diaphragmatic spasm is the cause of inspiratory apnea after a person gets winded (blow to the upper abdomen). Amazingly, this appears to...
15 March 2023 5,511 0 View
I'm struggling to get confirmation of acidosis in SIDS. This 2006 Medscape article alludes to it and even says there's a publication on it but I can't find it. Even the publishers at the journal...
15 March 2023 9,046 6 View
If the accessory respiratory muscles suddenly functioned without the diaphragm to initiate inspiration, could this generate negative pleural pressures and lead to the intrathoracic petechial...
07 March 2023 556 2 View
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06 March 2023 4,966 6 View
Has this been proven anywhere? (rebreathing and respiratory acidosis). My feeling is a combination of metabolic with respiratory acidosis might lead to a "perfect storm" milieu conducive to...
09 February 2023 6,681 10 View
Proposed Hypothesis: Ventricular Fibrillation is to cardiac arrest, as “Acute Diaphragmatic Spasm“ (ADS) is to respiratory arrest ADS is herby proposed a terminal respiratory mechanism of sudden...
15 November 2022 2,809 2 View
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01 January 1970 3,688 2 View
Can Winding Injuries Be Fatal? What is the mechanism? Is the diaphragm involved? This informal paper discusses low-velocity blunt trauma to the chest and abdomen. It covers the paucity of...
01 January 1970 7,696 2 View
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01 January 1970 7,357 5 View
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01 January 1970 446 0 View
Similar to laryngospasms caused by seizures via laryngeal branches of the vagus nerve (as demonstrated by Nakase et al), is it possible that phrenic nerve hyperstimulation could occur from...
01 January 1970 8,562 0 View
Nicotine is a highly potent neuromuscular blocking agent that induces respiratory arrest in all ages by peripheral block at the diaphragm (not CNS). Deaths occur rapidly, typically within 30 min,...
01 January 1970 6,642 2 View
