The Young Everest Study: Preliminary report of changes in sleep and cerebral blood flow velocity during slow ascent to altitude in unacclimatised children

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 356-362

  Gavlak, Johanna C ^a,b   Stocks, Janet ^b   Laverty, Aidan ^a   Fettes, Emma ^a   Bucks, Romola ^c   Sonnappa, Samatha ^a,b   Cooper, Janine ^b   Grocott, Michael P ^b,d,e   Levett, Denny Z ^b   Martin, Daniel S ^b   Imray, Christopher H ^f   Kirkham, Fenella J ^b,d,e  

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CARDIOPULMONARY FUNCTION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; END TIDAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOCAPNIA; HYPOXIA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; SCHOOL CHILD; SLEEP; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER; VITAL SIGN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADOLESCENT; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHILD; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPOCAPNIA; MALE; NEPAL; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN; SLEEP; TRAVEL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 84876297228     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2012-302512     Document Type: Article

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