Liquid oxygen therapy can be used to treat

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 5 May 2021

Liquid oxygen therapy can be used to treat

A. Asthma

B. Lung disease

C. Pneumonia

D. All of these

Explanation:

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has become India’s largest producer of medical-grade liquid oxygen from a single location. Liquid oxygen, abbreviated LOx, LOX or Lox in the aerospace, submarine and gas industries, is the liquid form of molecular oxygen. It was used as the oxidizer in the first liquid-fueled rocket invented in 1926 by Robert H. Goddard, an application which has continued to the present. Liquid oxygen therapy is the medical process of providing additional oxygen to a patient who cannot get enough oxygen on their own. Conditions such as asthma, cystic fibrosis, dysphasia, COPD, heart failure, lung disease, and pneumonia can be treated by liquid oxygen therapy.

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