Arterial blood gases and oxygen content in climbers on Mount Everest

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 360, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 140-149

  Grocott, Michael P W ^a   Martin, Daniel S ^a   Levett, Denny Z H ^a   McMorrow, Roger ^a   Windsor, Jeremy ^a   Montgomery, Hugh E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; LACTIC ACID; CARBON DIOXIDE; HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN;

ADULT; ALKALOSIS; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; BICARBONATE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD PH; BLOOD SAMPLING; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOBARISM; HYPOXIA; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LUNG ALVEOLUS OXYGEN TENSION; LUNG DIFFUSION; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANOXIA; ARTERY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BLOOD; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PH; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; ARTERIES; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CARBON DIOXIDE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACTIC ACID; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUNTAINEERING; OXYGEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149381762     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa0801581     Document Type: Article

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