Gamow bag

Later a German climber is brought down the mountain in a Gamow bag.

A Gamow bag can sometimes be used to stabilize the sufferer before transport or descending.

Portable hyperbaric chambers or gamow bags can be used to treat altitude sickness.

If you can't make a descent, you can at least fake it by using a Gamow bag, which is a portable hyperbaric chamber.

His first important one, patented in 1990, was the Gamow bag enabling mountain climbers to avoid altitude sickness by raising the surrounding pressure.

For the Gamow Bag to function properly, an attendant must continuously inject fresh air into the chamber with a foot pump.

Mr. Traverso said most tour companies were familiar with the Gamow Bag, but few, including his, carried them routinely.

The person may require a Gamow bag (a bag that increases the air pressure around the climber which simulates descent) or other hyperbaric chamber treatment.

His best known inventions include the Gamow bag and the Shallow Underwater Breathing Apparatus.

A Gamow bag (pronounced Gam-Off) is an inflatable pressure bag large enough to accommodate a person inside.

A Gamow bag is generally used only as an aid to evacuate severe AMS patients, not to treat them at altitude.

He said the Himalayan Rescue Association used the Gamow Bag and that others were available at various sites in Nepal.

If available, the patient can be placed in a Gamow bag, which is a portable high-pressure bag that increases oxygen tension and may stabilize the patient.

Dr. Gamow originally designed a predecessor to the gamow bag called "The Bubble" for high-altitude athletes.

Perplexed, Hunt decided to put him inside the pressurized Gamow Bag, which was set up in a lodge adjacent to the HRA clinic.

A Gamow bag is designed to help prevent the progress of a disease called H.A.P.E., a disease that is a type of altitude sickness.

The gamow bag was named after its inventor, Dr. Igor Gamow, son of George Gamow.

When Hunt attempted to put him back in the Gamow Bag, Ngawang refused, arguing, as Ngima had, that he didn't have HAPE.

This suggests that sufferers might be treated during an attack with a hyperbaric chamber of some sort, such as a Gamow bag (as is done in the treatment of "The Bends" and altitude sickness).

For more serious cases of AMS, or where rapid descent is impractical, a Gamow bag, a portable plastic hyperbaric chamber inflated with a foot pump, can be used to reduce the effective altitude by as much as 1,500 meters (5,000 ft).

Named for its developer, Dr. Igor Gamow (pronounced GAM-off), a chemical engineering professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder, the Gamow Bag "simulates actual descent" by compressing air so that the climber takes in more oxygen.

With daylight waning, Schoening and Madsen therefore began dragging Ngawang laboriously down the mountain, using the deflated Gamow Bag as a makeshift toboggan, while guide Neal Beidleman and a team of Sherpas climbed as quicldy as they could from Base Camp to meet them.