Brief report: Pressure support ventilation during an ascent and on the summit of Mt.Everest? A theoretical approach

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 65-68

  Kleinsasser, Axel ^a   Loeckinger, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Altitude; Alveolar partial pressure of oxygen; Barometric pressure; Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation; Pressure support ventilation

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

AIRWAY PRESSURE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BREATHING MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MASK; MOUNTAINEERING; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY CARE; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNITED STATES;

AIR PRESSURE; ALTITUDE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MASKS; MOUNTAINEERING; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; POSITIVE-PRESSURE RESPIRATION; TIBET; WORK OF BREATHING;

EID: 0036224531     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/152702902753639568     Document Type: Article

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