Arterial Blood Gases and Oxygen Content in Climbers on Mount Everest | Zendy

Michael P. W. Grocott | Zendy; Daniel Martín | Zendy; Denny Levett | Zendy; Roger McMorrow | Zendy; Jeremy S. Windsor | Zendy; Hugh Montgomery | Zendy

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Arterial Blood Gases and Oxygen Content in Climbers on Mount Everest

Author(s) -

Michael P. W. Grocott,

Daniel Martín,

Denny Levett,

Roger McMorrow,

Jeremy S. Windsor,

Hugh Montgomery

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

new england journal of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889

H-Index - 1030

eISSN - 1533-4406

pISSN - 0028-4793

DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa0801581

Subject(s) - mount , medicine , arterial blood , hypoxia (environmental) , summit , oxygen , breathing gas , effects of high altitude on humans , breathing , anesthesia , physical geography , chemistry , anatomy , geography , organic chemistry , computer science , operating system

The level of environmental hypobaric hypoxia that affects climbers at the summit of Mount Everest (8848 m [29,029 ft]) is close to the limit of tolerance by humans. We performed direct field measurements of arterial blood gases in climbers breathing ambient air on Mount Everest.

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