Cooper Respiration Technologies
From health technology, athletic science, deep sea research, and even space exploration, respiration technology helps us reach beyond the limitations of the human body.
Our research has made significant headway in lifesaving technologies, including the mechanical revival of individuals who have become unconscious in liquid environments. As with any first aid, swift treatment is key in increasing the chances for survival.
An except from a TED talk by Cooper Respiration Technologies President George Plantagenet:
"...Even for the average consumer, a breath of fresh air takes much more effort than it did twenty years ago. Changes in the global environment have not been kind to the human body, even more so for those who are by nature or by accident impaired of breath. Losing function in the lungs lessens the quality of oxygen progressing throughout the body. Even for a human with healthy lungs, you may lose consciousness within minutes of being fully oxygen-deprived. As soon as you lose your intake, your body starts to shut down and becomes more and more damaged as the minutes pass. Within one minute of being fully deprived of oxygen, brain cells begin to die. In another two minutes, permanent damage becomes much more likely. At five minutes, most of your cells have begun to die even if your brain isn't quite lost yet. At ten minutes, your brain will no longer function as it did and you are bound to become comatose. Any longer and death claims you at last. From the mightiest to the smallest, oxygen is a required part of our survival, and a true breath of fresh air is all the sweeter for it. In order to shore up against this, Cooper Respiration Technologies has made headway in understanding how we breathe, what makes the perfect breath, and how respiration technology can take the next steps into the future. We've come a long way from the iron lung, and we want to take it much farther...."