Oxygen and living at altitude

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-2

  Tasker, Robert C ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ALTITUDE; ANEMIA; BREATHING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEMOSTASIS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; HYPOXIA; IRON THERAPY; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; OXYGEN SATURATION; PEDIATRICS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; SHORT SURVEY; TISSUE BLOOD FLOW; VASOMOTOR REFLEX;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALTITUDE; HUMANS; IRON; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN; OXYHEMOGLOBINS;

EID: 58349113611     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2008.141432     Document Type: Short Survey

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