Here’s a simple fact about health care: no drug or device will improve a person’s health if he can’t draw a simple breath. Without the ability to draw complete tissue-enriching oxygen to the entire body, an otherwise healthy person is resigned to a life of headaches, fatigue, pain, and loss of cognition skills. Without relief, this shortness of breath – or dyspnea – will continuously pull a person down into a prison of immobility and, eventually, death. A healthy person needs only to spend a short time taking all of his air through a drinking straw to appreciate the awful sensation.
At some point, the downward spiral will land a person in a hospital bed or another clinical setting where a...
