Get this, our lungs give off nitrous oxide...

[theOXYGENpimp]

No shit. I just had a clinical rotation at a doctors office and they
had this nice piece of equipment that was a nitrous oxide scrubber.
Basically you breath in scrubbed air through it and exhale a certain
way ( there is a graphic with a girl in a balloon you have to help
across a river to help you breath the right way, with a constant flow
basically). People with asthma whose inflammation isn't under control
have very high amounts of NO2. Apparantly some asthmatics score normal
on this but show obstruction on a flow volume loop. Something in
leukotreine release causes NO2 to be released. This machine apparantly
just hit the market the past few months and will teach us alot about
asthma......I'll volunteer to "dispose" of the spent nitrous
oxide...LOL!

[ShelleyN]

That sounds really awesome. We're doing Pulmonary Diagnostics right
now. We're just about getting into diffusion defects, tests, etc. I
think I'll mention this to my instructor. Sounds cool. Is there a
website or something about it?

[theOXYGENpimp]

Don't know about that, even my teachers didn't know it got out of the
experimental stage.