If the spinal cord is transected above C3, then spontaneous breathing is not possible.

If this muscle is incapacitated on both sides, the inability to pull the vocal folds apart ( abduct ) will cause difficulty breathing.

If either the sump clearing valve sticks open or the top float valve sticks closed, a snorkel is rendered useless as a breathing aid and the swimmer is forced to fall back on alternative surface breathing methods.

If designed for use under water, it is called SCUBA ( self-contained underwater breathing apparatus ).

If courts, for instance, should prevent a man from breathing any air which had been breathed by another ( within, say a reasonable statute of limitations ), those individuals who breathed most vigorously and were quickest and wisest in selecting desirable locations in which to breathe ( or made the most advantageous contracts with such individuals ) would, by virtue of their property right in certain volumes of air, come to exercise and enjoy a peculiar economic advantage, which might, through various modes of economic exchange, be turned into other forms of economic advantage, e. g., the ownership of newspapers or fine clothing.

If a person loses part or all of the ability to control the muscles involved, breathing becomes difficult or impossible.

If the symptoms are significant, nighttime positive airway pressure ( PAP ) treatment is tried ; this involves the use of a machine to assist with breathing.

If pure oxygen is used, no oxygen breathing mask or helmet is needed, but the cost of using pure oxygen is much higher than that of using compressed air.

If we except Catullus and Simonides, it might be hard to match and it would be impossible to overmatch the flawless and blameless yet living and breathing beauty of his most perfect elegies, epigrams or epitaphs.

If this procedure is used, it is imperative to rinse the unit with soap and water before reinstalling onto the machine and breathing.

Examples might include: ( 1 ) Rather than talking about the client's critical parent, a Gestalt therapist might ask the client to imagine the parent is present, or that the therapist is the parent, and talk to that parent directly ; ( 2 ) If a client is struggling with how to be assertive, a Gestalt therapist could either ( a ) have the client say some assertive things to the therapist or members of a therapy group, or ( b ) give a talk about how one should never be assertive ; ( 3 ) A Gestalt therapist might notice something about the non-verbal behavior or tone of voice of the client ; then the therapist might have the client exaggerate the non-verbal behavior and pay attention to that experience ; ( 4 ) A Gestalt therapist might work with the breathing or posture of the client, and direct awareness to changes that might happen when the client talks about different content.

If a helmeted diver becomes unconscious but is still breathing, the helmet will remain in place and continue to deliver breathing gas until the diver can be rescued.

If by force of habit the diver does the same with a rebreather that has a plain mouthpiece instead of a full-face mask, that water will get into the breathing circuit.

If unwilling / unable to perform rescue breathing, then perform compression-only CPR, as any attempt at resuscitation is better than no attempt ; and should be encouraged.

Assess :* If the patient is breathing normally, and pulse is present then the patient should be placed in the recovery position and monitored.

* If patient is not breathing assess pulse at the carotid on your side for an adult, at the brachial for a child and infant for 5 seconds and not more than 10 seconds ; begin immediately with chest compressions at a rate of 30 chest compressions in 18 seconds followed by two rescue breaths in 5 seconds each lasting for 1 second.

If the victim is breathing normally, turn him into the recovery position and get help.

* If the victim is not breathing normally, call for an ambulance.

If the victim is unable to speak or cough effectively, or is unable to breathe or is breathing with a wheezy sound, the airway obstruction is severe.

If the baby's condition worsens, an endotracheal tube ( breathing tube ) is inserted into the trachea and intermittent breaths are given by a mechanical device.

If a hemangioma develops in the larynx, breathing can be compromised.

If the casualty is not breathing, the ascent will be urgent.

If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;

If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

If he is a traditionalist, he is an eclectic traditionalist.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

If rotation is arrested, the energy stored in fashioning the concave surface must be dissipated, for example through friction, before an equilibrium flat surface is restored.

If the conditions are restored too quickly, the nucleic acid strands may realign imperfectly.

If he did not, heaven would withdraw its mandate restored order would hold the new mandate.

If the occlusal surfaces of the teeth or the supporting structures have been altered due to inappropriate dental treatment, periodontal disease, or trauma, the proper occlusion may need to be restored.

If good government was to be restored all Masons must be purged from public office ".

If a meadow be well manured, we remove, with the increased crop of grass, a greater quantity of potash than can, by a repetition of the same manure, be restored to it.

If petals are lost, they can easily be restored by swallowing enemies or eating fruit, keeping the player in a comfortable state of platforming.

If the database fails entirely, it must be restored from the most recent back-up.

If supersymmetry is restored at the weak scale, then the Higgs mass is related to supersymmetry breaking which can be induced from small non-perturbative effects explaining the vastly different scales in the weak interactions and gravitational interactions.

The Queen responded that " If he will but once attend the Protestant Service, he shall not only see his wife and children, but be restored to his honors and estates with every mark of my royal favor.

If one follows the water from its source, the water in Prospect Park takes us on a course starting at the top of Fallkill Falls into Fallkill Pool past the Fallkill Bridge through the recently restored Upper Pool and Lower Pool, where migratory birds rest and marsh and other water plants can be found.

If a new page with the same name has been created since the deletion, the restored revisions will be merged with the new page's history, and the current revision of the live page will not be automatically replaced.

If the rivets are removed from a sizzle cymbal its previous tone will be restored, despite the small holes left in the cymbal.

" If I Could Go Back ", " Where Knowledge Ends ( Faith Begins )", and " I Come To You " were cut, but restored for the laserdisc release of the film.

If you were to release a purely-non-widescreen version of Monty Python, you would have those options, as well as the additional option of an " open-matte " release, where the film footage that was never visible in theaters ( due to use of the matte technique in post-production or in the theatrical projectors ) is " restored " to the purely non-widescreen DVD release.

If there is ever a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored.

If the player uses " De-Fusion ", the player's life points are restored.

If he is badly damaged, the suit can heal his wounds, and can completely restore him to life using records of his genome and brain activity patterns, as in one instance where the suit restored him fully after the Hulk had beaten him into goo.

If caught early enough and the blood supply can be restored to the testicle, this operation can be performed to prevent further occurrence of torsion.

Contemplating the position of recent philosophy from Locke to Hegel, and having his eye directed to the ancient and fundamental problem of the origin, truth and certainty of our ideas, he wrote: " If philosophy is to be restored to love and respect, I think it will be necessary, in part, to return to the teachings of the ancients, and in part to give those teachings the benefit of modern methods " ( Theodicy, a.

If the wheels are not aligned in the direction of travel when traction is suddenly restored and the rear-tire stops slipping then a highside is likely, depending on how much the bike is turned across the direction of travel and how fast the bike is traveling when the rear tire stops slipping.

If after this period of time the Stage 3 emergency still exists, power is restored to this grid but then the next grid in the sequence is blacked out, and so on, until the situation is stabilized — the blackout thus " rolls " from one grid to the next.

If the warrior can catch up to the particular monster that did the stealing, he can fight it and if successful, will get his spells or experience points restored.

If he wins a majority of bouts in the next tournament ( which is called kachikoshi ), he is restored to regular ozeki status.