Dr. J. Richard Spears, professor of Internal Medicine at Wayne State\'s School of Medicine, has conducted research that has led to the discovery of a potential approach to infusing large amounts of oxygen into blood which may one day improve treatments where oxygen is critical to sustaining life, and other means of receiving oxygen are inadequate. Potential applications include infusing aqueous oxygen into the aorta to supply oxygen to lungs that function inadequately in patients on a ventilator with severe pneumonia; shock from any cause where blood flow to major organs is low; reperfusion problems such as renal failure after shock; severe infections; and tumors that are resistant to radiation therapy because they are hypoxic.