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MUMMS Article on "Jessica" Advanced Micro Devices is set to roll out 12 new processors for notebooks on Wednesday at the CeBit trade show in Hannover, Germany, as part of an effort to ride the wireless wave. March 11, 2003, 9:00 PM PST contact: mums@netnet.net website: www.netnet.net./mums/

HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY IN GLOBAL CEREBRAL ISCHEMIA/ANOXIA AND COMA For a discussion of the effectiveness of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy in global cerebral ischemia/anoxia and coma, we define HBO as a medical treatment that uses high pressure oxygen as a drug by fully enclosing a person or animal in a pressure vessel and then adjusting the dose of the drug to treat pathophysiologic processes of the diseases.. PRO ARGUMENT FOR INCLUSION OF ACUTE TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY ON THE UHMS HBOT COMMITTEE’S ACCEPTED INDICATIONS LIST Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects over 1.6 million United States residents annually and a far greater number internationally (Ghajar). Over 50,000 of these individuals will die from their brain injury and greater than 80,000 will have permanent severe neurological disability (Ghajar). Since the development of the modern emergency medical system (EMS) management of acute trauma no therapeutic modality has further reduced the mortality of traumatic brain injury.