Tri-ox is an intravenous medicine used to increase oxygen in a biological entities blood stream. It also strengthens a person's cardiopulmonary system allowing them to surface for extended periods of time in environments with a lower oxygen level that what is usual for that species. A recommended dosage for Humans in a carbon dioxide rich environment such as a Class L planet is 15 ccs every four hours. While stranded on an L class world Lisa Cusak managed to survive for longer by taking decreased dosages. (DS9: "The Sound of Her Voice")
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| - Tri-ox is an intravenous medicine used to increase oxygen in a biological entities blood stream. It also strengthens a person's cardiopulmonary system allowing them to surface for extended periods of time in environments with a lower oxygen level that what is usual for that species. A recommended dosage for Humans in a carbon dioxide rich environment such as a Class L planet is 15 ccs every four hours. While stranded on an L class world Lisa Cusak managed to survive for longer by taking decreased dosages. (DS9: "The Sound of Her Voice")
- Tri-ox was a simple but effective intravenous medicine used for rapidly oxygenating the blood cells of a living being, especially in an oxygen-poor environment such as Vulcan. Most Humans and humanoids would otherwise have had trouble getting sufficient oxygen in such environments, especially during any strenuous work or other exertions. The drug could be used as a substitute for cumbersome breathing masks and equipment in such cases. In 2373, Lieutenant Tuvok used tri-ox on passengers of an orbital tether carriage that was low on oxygen. VOY: "Rise")
- Tri-ox compound is an intravenous medicine which is designed to strengthen the cardiopulmonary system, and is effective in enriching a body of oxygen, and is essential to Humans and humanoids who find themselves in oxygen-poor environments, such as the planet Vulcan. (TOS episode: "Amok Time") Vulcans invented tri-ox to help with pneumonia. (TOS novel: Uhura's Song) It was also used as a treatment for smoke inhalation. (TLE novel: Serpents Among the Ruins) Tri-ox sometimes had the side effect of provoking hyperactivity in excitable individuals. (TOS novel: Vulcan's Forge)
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| - Tri-ox was a simple but effective intravenous medicine used for rapidly oxygenating the blood cells of a living being, especially in an oxygen-poor environment such as Vulcan. Most Humans and humanoids would otherwise have had trouble getting sufficient oxygen in such environments, especially during any strenuous work or other exertions. The drug could be used as a substitute for cumbersome breathing masks and equipment in such cases. Tri-ox compound was designed to strengthen an individual's cardiopulmonary system. An injection of 15 ccs of tri-ox every four hours was the recommended dosage taken to compensate for excess carbon dioxide, as could be the case of a humanoid in prolonged exposure to a Class L environment. Without it, an individual would experience the effects of hypoxia and possibly carbon dioxide poisoning. (DS9: "The Sound of Her Voice") Doctor Leonard McCoy feigned using tri-ox on Captain James T. Kirk in 2267 during a Vulcan combat ritual. The following year, McCoy actually administered tri-ox to Kirk after he had been retrieved from an interphase, when his space suit's air supply had nearly run out. (TOS: "Amok Time" , "The Tholian Web" } In 2373, Lieutenant Tuvok used tri-ox on passengers of an orbital tether carriage that was low on oxygen. VOY: "Rise") The exact mechanism by which tri-ox worked has not been stated on screen, but it could be inferred from the instances it has been used (and those when it has not) that it increased the blood cells' ability to bind and carry oxygen, rather than supplying additional oxygen on its own.
- Tri-ox compound is an intravenous medicine which is designed to strengthen the cardiopulmonary system, and is effective in enriching a body of oxygen, and is essential to Humans and humanoids who find themselves in oxygen-poor environments, such as the planet Vulcan. (TOS episode: "Amok Time") Vulcans invented tri-ox to help with pneumonia. (TOS novel: Uhura's Song) It was also used as a treatment for smoke inhalation. (TLE novel: Serpents Among the Ruins) Tri-ox sometimes had the side effect of provoking hyperactivity in excitable individuals. (TOS novel: Vulcan's Forge) In 2267, Dr. Leonard McCoy feigned using tri-ox on Captain James T. Kirk, when Kirk engaged Spock during in the kal-if-fee ceremony on Vulcan. (TOS episode: "Amok Time") Later that year he dosed Kirk with tri-ox and an analgesic to help his CO recover from the knife wound he sustained during Thelev's assassination attempt. (ST novel: Federation) Cervantes Quinn had some Tri-ox compound in his medkit in 2268. He used it on himself when trying to recover from Hypothermia and Hypoxia. (VAN - Declassified novella: The Stars Look Down) In 2371, in the mirror universe, Jean-Luc Picard injected himself with a dose of tri-ox before entering the Sakethan burial mounds on New T'Karath. (TNG novel: Glass Empires: "The Worst of Both Worlds")
- Tri-ox is an intravenous medicine used to increase oxygen in a biological entities blood stream. It also strengthens a person's cardiopulmonary system allowing them to surface for extended periods of time in environments with a lower oxygen level that what is usual for that species. A recommended dosage for Humans in a carbon dioxide rich environment such as a Class L planet is 15 ccs every four hours. While stranded on an L class world Lisa Cusak managed to survive for longer by taking decreased dosages. (DS9: "The Sound of Her Voice")
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