Oxygen on Everest: The development of modern open-circuit systems for mountaineers

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 799-804

  Windsor, Jeremy S ^a,b   McMorrow, Roger C ^a   Rodway, George W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypoxia; Mt. Everest; Supplemental oxygen

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; HYPOBARISM; MOUNTAINEERING; OPEN CIRCUIT SYSTEM; OXYGEN DELIVERY DEVICE; OXYGEN TENSION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; REVIEW;

ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MOUNTAINEERING; NEPAL; OXYGEN;

EID: 48649091426     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2329.2008     Document Type: Review

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