User talk:Leonartica

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 * I see you have trying to add text to Hyperbaric medicine and Retinopathy of prematurity. In the first case, I think the idea of the Transportable Recompression Chamber System deserves mention. It seems though that you may have added text that was taken too closely from another website (which is copyrighted). It's also possible that the amount of text you added was felt disproportionate by another editor. I'd encourage you to take another look, and see if you can add a few concise sentences explaining that transportable chambers exist and who uses them. Don't bother listing what they are used for, as that is detailed in the article already. Try not to embellish it with adjectives like "unique", which give a strong impression of advertising. By all means add a reference at the end of your text:

Only refer to the TRCS page that supports their existence and usage. It's not really what we consider a reliable source as it is self-published, but it does indicate that TRCS exists and is used by the military, etc. I don't guarantee that other editors won't object to the source (as it does seem promotional), but perhaps you know of other sources (newspaper articles, journals, etc.) that would support what you write.

As for ROP, you're adding a controversial hypothesis that has not been published in scholarly journals as far as I'm aware. I did considerable research on the pathophysiology of ROP for the Oxygen toxicity article, and although the precise mechanism is not yet well-understood, I would suggest that any serious proposal needs to explain the animal studies such as R W Fowler and D A Blake (Pediatr Res 1981; 15: 1293-302), where aspirin allowed ROP to occur in beagles, and Phelp & Rosenbaum's studies of prophylactic treatment with tocopheral. There is a suggestion that the developing eye may undergo vasoconstriction as a protective response to oxygen radicals, which disrupts the normal development, so that vascular growth continues abnormally when the radicals are removed or suppressed (which isn't inconsistent with Dr James' findings). Silverman gives an interesting overview of the historical controversies. Anyway, if you know that Dr James' review has been published in a peer-reviewed journal, it would be worth revisiting our article, using that as the source. --RexxS (talk) 19:52, 22 September 2010 (UTC)