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	Gamow bag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The gamow bag was named after its inventor, Dr. Igor Gamow, son of George Gamow.
		Gamow originally designed a predecessor to the gamow bag called "The Bubble" for high-altitude athletes which would produce more red blood cells to carry more oxygen to the muscles.
		Gamow did not give up though and re-designed 'The Bubble' into a bag that could be used by high-altitude climbers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gamow_bag (169 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Gamow is the son of the famed physicist George Gamow, a co-author of the Big Bang Theory and the first to propose the genetic code.
		Gamow's mother, Rho, was a ballet dancer; and it was in his mother's footsteps that the son first followed, joining the National Ballet Company after finishing high school at age 17.
		Gamow hardly confines himself to the classroom and lab: he is an irrepressible outdoorsman.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/gamow.html (549 words)

	R. IGOR GAMOW: Rocky Mountain News Feature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Outside, Gamow's great Dane, the aptly named Titan, guards the porch above a garage that holds a 1950s Harley Davidson motorcycle and a 1960, fuel-injected white Mercedes 220 SE convertible that belonged to Gamow's late father and mentor, internationally acclaimed physicist George Gamow.
		Inside are replicas of the life-saving hyperbaric Gamow bag he created, along with designs to adapt the bag's altitude-lowering principles for use aboard space shuttle flights.
		Using the principles of the Gamow bag, and modifying a firefighter's mask with surgical tubing attached to a foot pump Gamow found he could comfortably work down to 10 feet underwater.
	www.gamow.com /igor/bio/gamowbio2.html (1694 words)

	Igor Gamow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rustem Igor Gamow, son of George Gamow, is a microbiology professor and mountain climber.
		He invented the Gamow bag and the high altitude bed.
		In the spring of 2004, the University of Colorado at Boulder fired Dr. Gamow for moral turpitude.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Igor_Gamow (133 words)

	westword.com \| News & Features \| Feature \| Fear and Groping in Boulder (Page 3) \| 1996-06-06 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Gamow was the faculty advisor to the group and talked with her one-on-one on several occasions.
		Gamow taught one of her first classes at CU; he was also her advisor and headed a student research group that she joined.
		Gamow held her hands, caressed her face and kissed her, she wrote, while explaining that what he was proposing was "essentially the same as running off to Las Vegas together and not leaving the bed for a week."
	www.westword.com /Issues/1996-06-06/news/feature3_3.html (978 words)

	Outside Online - Gear
		It was invented in the early 1990s by Igor Gamow, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Colorado.
		Gamow also devised a similar but lighter gadget called the Gamow Bag as an emergency treatment for altitude sickness.
		The idea was that the ill person would climb inside the coffin-sized Gamow Bag and someone else would use a foot pump to inflate the bag to simulate the air pressure of lower elevations.
	away.com /gear/gearguy/200002/20000213.html (417 words)

	Hyperbaric Treatment
		The extent of the descent depends on the altitude at which the bag is used; as an example, at 4250m (14,000 ft), the inside of the bag is equivalent to 2100m (7,000 ft).
		As in the Gamow® Bag, fresh air must be regularly pumped into the bag to prevent CO buildup.
		The external, dangling pressure gauge on the Gamow Bag is vulnerable to wear/damage and subsequent leakage, something avoided in the Certec by having the pressure gauge set flush into the bag.
	www.high-altitude-medicine.com /hyperbaric.html (1476 words)

	fresnobee.com \| Journey to Antarctica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		When that is not possible the use of a Gamow bag has saved many lives.
		The sick person is put into the bag, which looks like a large sausage, and then air is pumped in to increase the air pressure around their body simulating a lower altitude.
		Gamow, who developed it) incase anyone in our party became severely sick and the bag was with us on the glacier.
	www.fresnobee.com /man/antarctica/journals/11_30.html (994 words)

	Altitude Sickness -- Definition, Causes, Effects, Prevention, Treatments
		The excellent overview (at right) gives me more insight how and why a client having seizures worked with our #176 Rapidly Improving Your Breathing Video and was able to ascend 1,500 to 7,000 feet to the general store she had previously been unable to reach due to oxygen starvation and increased intensity of seizures.
		Pumping the bag full of air effectively increases the concentration of oxygen molecules, and, therefore, simulates a descent to lower altitude.
		This lasts for up to 12 hours outside of the bag which should be enough time to walk them down to a lower altitude and allow for further acclimatization.
	www.aboutbreathing.com /articles/altitude-sickness.htm (2933 words)

	TEA: Sajor- -- 11.17.2003
		One of the techniques they use if a person is in respiratory distress is to place them in a Gamow bag, which is a portable hypobaric chamber.
		The patient is placed in the bag which is sealed and pressurized with a foot pump to as high as 2 PSI.
		As we approached the 1PSI point, we noted the watch in the bag was reading -840 feet and the watch outside the bag remained at +1340 feet, a difference of 2,180 feet.
	tea.armadaproject.org /sajor/11.17.2003.html (642 words)

	Ciwec Clinic - Altitude Illness Advice
		Igor Gamow constructed a practical portable inflatable pressure chamber that has been dubbed `the Gamow bag.' His bag is currently marketed in the U.S. by Portable Hyperbarics, Inc.for around U.S. It can also be rented in the U.S. or in Kathmandu.
		The Gamow bag may replace oxygen as the treatment of last resort in acute mountain sickness.
		Carrying the Gamow bag should be considered if you are traveling into a remote high altitude area where descent is difficult, or if you are in a large group where someone may hide or misinterpret their symptoms until they are seriously ill.
	www.ciwec-clinic.com /altitude/ciwalt1.html (2479 words)

	Regents fire UCB's Gamow, cite 'acts of moral turpitude' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		In his letter, Gamow challenges an April 11 story in the Boulder Daily Camera, in which staff writer Clint Talbott chronicles the claims of one of Gamow's alleged victims, Gretchen Hume, who publicly alleged in 1996 that she had been sexually assaulted by Gamow as an undergraduate in 1982.
		Gamow, who began teaching at UCB in 1968, said he believes that CU officials decided at the last minute to not use Ruehlman's allegations against him during his September 2003 Privilege and Tenure Committee hearing, and that Ruehlman did not testify as planned.
		Indicating that using Ruehlman's charges against Gamow in the dismissal process would have hurt the University's chances in her lawsuit against CU, Ruehlman's attorney, George Johnson, states in a legal brief that CU withdrew her claims "because it put uppermost its interest in preserving the opportunity to discredit [Ruehlman] in later court proceedings."
	newmedia.colorado.edu /silverandgold/messages/3529.html (547 words)

	NOVA Online \| Alive on Everest \| Thin Air (3)
		A Gamow Bag is a portable fabric hyperbaric chamber that can be inflated with a rafting-style foot pump to a pressure of about two psi (pounds per square inch).
		While the bag is being pumped up, the patient inside often develops mild ear pressure and feels an increase in temperature due to the compression of air molecules within the enclosed space.
		The unfortunate reality of Gamow Bags is that ultimately patients have to get out of them, and they're back at the same altitude where they began.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/everest/expeditions/97/thin3.html (1098 words)

	IMG: 2001 Mallory & Irvine Research Expedition
		Another useful method to gain some time for the descent is the use of the Gamow Bag, a portable pressure chamber.
		The patient is placed completely within the airtight chamber and by means of a foot-pump, the barometric pressure is raised inside the bag, effectively lowering the patient's altitude by 6-8000 ft. Constant pumping, about every 5 seconds is required to maintain the pressure and refresh the air.
		The patient is usually kept in the bag for 2-3 hours before being rechecked, although a window in the top of the bag allows visual observation and communication.
	www.mountainguides.com /everest2001/LiveFiles/dispatch56.html (464 words)

	Chinook Medical Gear, Inc. - Custom Medical Solutions for the Harshest Environments on Earth. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		By increasing air pressure around the patient, the Bag simulates descent of as much as 7,000 feet, thus relieving AMS symptoms.
		The Bag is constructed of durable nylon and reinforced with circular nylon straps.
		The Bag is pressurized with ambient air to 2 pounds per square inch by use of a foot pump.
	chinookmed.com /detail.php?product_id=12&page=index.php&... (174 words)

	Everest news, Cho Oyu news, from Himalayan Experience
		Within hours of arriving we rushed to save one Sherpa's life: he had been stuffed into a Gamow bag (a hyperbaric chamber) and his friends stopped pumping fresh air into the air tight balloon.
		The Gamow bag, even though it was almost used as a weapon, had been borrowed.
		This commercial expedition had none of the commonly carried medications, and their Gamow bag failed.
	www.himex.com /archives/everest01/updateE015.htm (796 words)

	Kilimanjaro via the Western Breach, February 2005 The seven summits, the highest peaks of the 7 continents: Everest, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Again, a Gamow bag is not needed as descent is the only solution and it is easy on Kili to descend.
		The guides -yes, from the same 'safe' company charging extra for oxygen and gamow bags- had given this man extra oxygen on his way up to the crater as he was feeling very bad.
		You'd be advised to ignore the spiel about Gamow bags, supplemental oxygen, defibrillators and pulse oximeters since all operators have now learnt the lingo.
	7summits.com /forum/index.php?topic=865.msg3979 (2034 words)

	KRDO News 13 - News & Top Stories - Colorado Springs, Pueblo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Gamow remains on the C.U. payroll and maintains a campus laboratory.
		Gamow is an inventor who won much acclaim in the 1990s.
		He's probably best known for the Gamow Bag, a chamber that has saved the lives of dozens of mountain climbers who contracted high-altitude sickness.
	www.krdotv.com /displaystory.asp?id=7343 (170 words)

	Alma Students Scale Heights to Study Mountain Sickness
		An alternative is to use a mini-hyperbaric chamber like the Gamow bag.
		Clinically, the Gamow bag has been documented to be effective in treating high altitude disorders.
		The purpose of this research project will be to examine the physiological responses to hyperbaria induced by the Gamow bag.
	www.collegenews.org /x4737.xml (428 words)

	The Antarctic Sun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		"At this point it's just in the preliminary phases, but we realize at the big camps there's a need to provide treatment beyond a Gamow Bag," Dunbar said, referring to a portable bivy-like bag that is pumped full of pressured air, temporarily simulating a lower environment for the person inside.
		Dunbar said he is also hoping to produce a video or come up with another way to provide more information to research teams before they reach the Ice, and make sure their physicians are involved in the screening process.
		Placing a pressurized facility at East Camp before researchers begin drilling the frozen lake - a project sure to boost the camp's population - is one of the goals of field officials, Dunbar said.
	www.polar.org /antsun/oldissues2001-2002/2001_1209/altitude.html (974 words)

	Gamow Bag For Sale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		This is a Gamow Bag that has been used on a few research projects in the Himalaya and the Andes.
		Included: The backpack/carrying case, foot pump, Gamow Bag, and instruction manual.
		The bag in its carrying case weighs 6.6 kg (14.5 lb); shipping box weight will be about 7.3 kg (16 pounds).
	www.high-altitude-medicine.com /Gamow4Sale.htm (110 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Gamow bag A Gamow bag is a large bag that someone suffering from severe altitude sickness can be placed in, while someone else outside the bag pumps to raise the pressure inside the bag.
		It is the most effective emergency treatment, short of evacuation (provided the pumper doesn't go to sleep, in which case...).
		Also ABC television showed a documentary (quite good), and a made-for-TV movie (execrable judging from the 10 minutes I saw).
	www.jmilne.org /mntn/Nepal01/Notes.html (210 words)

	Emergency Aids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The Gamow-bag is really helpfull when trekkers or climbers suffer from altitude sickness such as HAPE and HACE.
		The bag rapidly decreases the altitude by a couple of thousands meters and can be the difference between life and death within hours.
		If your expedition want´s to bring the Gamow, it could be possible to rent it.
	www.mounteverest.net /guide/eaid.htm (556 words)

	Steckler Diary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Despite Jangu Babu's protestations, Lance quickly placed him in a Gamow bag.
		A Gamow bag is tiny sleeping-bag-like tent that gets pressurized by a foot pump.
		Lance bursts into the tent, rips open the Gamow bag and tries to revive Jangbu.
	www.nationallampoon.com /modstyles/wwwaste/everest/day20.asp (324 words)

	C/NET
		Altitude sickness at its worst results in pulmonary or cerebral edema where arteries leak fluid into the lungs or brain.
		To help elite mountaineers beat the debilitating effects of high altitudes, Dr. Igor Gamow of the University of Colorado has invented the Gamow Bag, a backpackable, twelve-pound chamber that can be pumped up to match the higher air pressure found at lower altitudes.
		Athletes who want to increase their aerobic capacity can also use the Gamow Bag.
	www.scifi.com /cableinclassroom/edge.326.html (664 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO X-Status: Min, You are referring to the Gamow bag, invented by Igor Gamow, who appears just as eccentric as his father, the cosmologist George Gamow.
		I would seriously consider enhancing the oxygen concentration of all workspaces, etc., as Readhead did at the CBI.
		Chinook Medical sells a Gamow bag for $2500.
	www.lmtgtm.org /lmto/fac/gamow_bag.txt (289 words)

	[No title]
		The only real cure for altitude problems is to go down, down to where the atmospheric pressure is higher and the oxygen is thicker.
		The next best thing is to simulate going down by getting in a big plastic bag and forcing it full of air with a foot pump.
		Up to this point in Joe’s saga I was playing camera guy and watching his adventure through a viewfinder, but when shit hit the fan I propped the camera on a box and helped get him into the bag.
	www.saltmag.net /display.php?article_id=118&author_id=2 (598 words)

	Mount Everest 2003 Team American Ski Everest
		Dispatch Eight: This is American Ski Everest Expedition, dispatch 8; This is the day we move up to ABC (intermediate camp).
		We spent yesterday resting and going over the medical equipment including the personal medical kits and just playing around with the Gamow Bag.
		You just kind of feel all the things like the pits and stuff in your stomach that you don't think are noticeable, then they become noticeable.
	www.k2news.com /everestnews2/skieverest03dis8.htm (222 words)

	Trekking in nepal, Nepal trekking, Nepal treks, trekking company Nepal - holiday Nepal, trekking Nepal, personal ...
		We carry Gamow bag or Portable Altitude Chamber (PAC) along with a comprehensive medical kit.
		We plan trips so that safety and comfort is not compromised, and so that we have flexibility to adjust the itinerary according to individual's fitness and reaction to altitude during trips.
		It is new and of a quality that will keep you comfortable and safe in extreme weather.
	www.treks-nepal.com /why_mma.htm (744 words)

	Climb Shishapangma, Shisha Pangma, Shishabangma, Xixabangma, Xixapangma.. Working with the Chinese Mountaineering ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Yak transport for personal equipment only (boots, ice axe, clothing, sleeping bag) from the road to and from advanced basecamp;
		For the expert and beginner alike, it is important to review these techniques in order to enhance skills, ensure safety-awareness, and work together as a team.
		BOTH full-service and basic expeditions are allowed access to our extensive medical supplies, first-aid kits, medical oxygen, and a gamow bag in case of emergency.
	www.cybernet1.com /himalaya/shishapangma.htm (1961 words)

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