Closed and open breathing circuit function in healthy volunteers during exercise at Mount Everest base camp (5300 m)

Anaesthesia

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 875-880

  McMorrow, R C N ^a,b   Windsor, J S ^a,c   Hart, N D ^a,d   Richards, P ^a,e   Rodway, G W ^a,f   Ahuja, V Y ^a,g   O'Dwyer, M J ^a,h   Mythen, M G ^a,i   Grocott, M P W ^a,j,k  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^c ROYAL FREE LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^e South Essex PCT   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^g Royal Navy ^*  (United Kingdom)

^h QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR QUALITY CONTROL; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; BREATHING APPARATUS; BREATHING RATE; CLOSED CIRCUIT BREATHING SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXIA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPEN CIRCUIT BREATHING SYSTEM; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUNTAINEERING; OXYGEN; RESPIRATION;

EID: 84863716543     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2012.07152.x     Document Type: Article

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