Asthma

 Jun 18, 2007 American Lung Association Asthma Emergency Protocol for Children with Asthma Who Do Not Have Their Own Emergency Plan

Heart Disease and Stroke 

 Jan 2005 American Heart Association Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics - 2005 Update

 Jan 15, 2008 MSNBC ER wait times getting longer – Overcrowding especially dangerous for Heart Attack Patients

 Feb 20, 2008 Yahoo News Strokes Among Middle-Aged Women Triple

  Aug 27, 2002 Circulation Impact of Community-Wide Police Car Deployment of Automated External Defibrillators on Survival From Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Emergency Response 

 Jan 2006 American College of Emergency Physicians National Report Card on the State of Emergency Medicine

 Jan 10, 2006 Yahoo News Analysis Says Emergency Care System Ailing

 Apr 8, 2004 Occupational Hazards Building Your Occupational Emergency Medical Care Program

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder (COPD) 

 Dec 4, 2006 MSNBC Could oxygen therapy started sooner save lives?

 Mar 2003 US Department of Health and Human Services National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Data Fact Sheet

 Aug 15, 2001 Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine, Charleston, South Carolina COPD: Management of Acute Exacerbations and Chronic Stable Disease

 2006 The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Short-term ambulatory oxygen for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Dangers of Compressed Tanks 

 Sep 23, 2005 CNN.com Up to 20 evacuees may be dead in bus fire

 Apr 9, 2006 Associated Press File indicates poor maintenance, oxygen storage fueled bus fire

 May 30, 2007 wsoctv.com Oxygen Tanks Blamed For North Carolina Explosions

 Mar 2, 2007 WATE.com Oxygen tanks led to trailer fire in Claxton

 Mar 7, 2008 MSNBC Bedridden Woman Dies In Fire

Cluster Headaches 

 Jun 13, 2006 Michigan Head, Pain and Neurological Institute Cluster Headaches

 Jun 9, 2006 Michigan Head, Pain and Neurological Institute High Oxygen Flow Rates for Cluster Headache

 Feb 15, 2005 American Family Physician Management of Cluster Headache

  2005 National Headache Foundation Oxygen Therapy for Headaches

Mining and Industrial Safety 

 Jan 22, 2006 Yahoo News Deaths Push Calls for Mine Safety Overhaul

 Feb 7, 2006 USA Today Feds mandate more oxygen in mines

 Mar 7, 2006 USA Today Mines given a month to store more oxygen

 Apr 27, 2006 Boston.com Air packs didn't work, mine survivor says

 Jul 2006 J. Davitt McAteer and Associates The Sago Mine Disaster - A preliminary report to Governor Joe Manchin III

 Mar 9, 2006 Mine Safety and Health Administration Emergency Mine Evacuation; Final Rule - Emergency Temporary Standard

 2002 NIOSH Self-Contained Self-Rescuer Field Evaluation: Seventh-Phase Results

 Jul 2000 NIOSH Self-Contained Self-Rescuer Field Evaluation: Sixth-Phase Results

 1996 United States Bureau of Mines Self-Contained Self-Rescuer Field Evaluation: Fifth-Phase Results

 2003 Mines Rescue Service Limited Use of self-rescuers in hot and humid mines

 Jun 8, 1995 Department of Labor and Mine Safety and Health Administration Respiratory Protective Devices; Final Rules and Notice - 42 CFR Part 84

Aviation 

 Mar 2001 NTSB Survivability of Accidents Involving Part 121 U.S. Air Carrier Operations, 1983 Through 2000

 May 15, 1996 CNN.com ValuJet not cleared to haul oxygen generators on doomed flight

Military 

 Aug 8, 2002 Fort Detrick Standard Oxygen Generators to reduce deployment weight