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   From: marionf@fact.com   
      
   Marion wrote:   
   > I simplified the tutorial for the patients to use at the hyperbaric oxygen   
   > therapy clinic. The main takeaway is you can essentially convert anything   
   > on the Internet that is text to an audiobook, no matter how large it is.   
   >   hyperbaric oxygen chamber   
      
    How does a hyperbaric oxygen chamber work anyway?   
      
   You're locked inside a "propane tank" where you're not allowed to bring   
   anything with you - not even your own clothes. So you're bored to death.   
      
   To stave off boredom, they allow you to play anything you want on the   
   speakers. Always wanting to learn something new, I decided on playing   
   audio books of my own choosing (e.g., Einstein's Theory of Relativity   
   from 1916 which is out of copyright since it only lasts for 100 years).   
      
   That's why I wrote the attached guide.   
   So the clinic patients can do likewise.   
      
   With this tutorial, you can take anything on the Internet and convert it   
   to an audiobook - which is usually about five or ten hours long.   
      
   That's suddenly useful because you have to spend two hours each day locked   
   in that "500-gallon propane tank" where they send you "down" to about 85   
   feet (if it were a freshwater dive) and you go through 7 cycles from:   
    1. About 10 minutes of pressurization from 1ATM to 2.5ATM on air   
    2. Then they switch you to about 30 minutes of high-pressure oxygen   
    3. Then an "air break" of 5 minutes (to forestall oxygen toxicity)   
    4. Then back to about 30 minutes of high-pressure oxygen   
    5. And again, a short "air break" of about 5 minutes   
    6. Back again to about 30 minutes of high-pressure pure oxygen   
    7. And then about 10 minutes to bring us back up to the surface on air.   
      
   The total therapeutic time is 90 minutes on high-pressure oxygen.   
   The main dangers are oxygen toxicity & nitrogen narcosis.   
      
   It's all about partial pressures, which everyone learned long ago.   
   It's basic scuba-diving stuff that every diver studies in detail.   
   Q: How does it work?   
   A: It fills your body with oxygen molecules at high pressure.   
      
   Oxygen molecules are of a relative size of a grain of sand compared to a   
   truck when it comes to how big red blood cells are, so they can get all   
   over the body through tiny roads (arteries & capillaries) and walls in our   
   tissues and organs. The perfusion only lasts a short while though.   
      
   So you have to do it again.   
   And again.   
   And again.   
      
   If a truck (RBC) can't get through a narrow artery, the grain of sand   
   can get through it - where the hope is the oxygen does some good.   
      
   Anyway, that's why I wrote the tutorial for how to convert anything   
   textual on the Internet to an audio file for people who are bored,   
   and stuck inside a propane tank for a couple of hours with nothing   
   else to do to keep their mind occupied (other than clear their ears).   
      
   The hope, as always, is that it helps everyone easily do what I can do.   
      
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