Open AccessCan Altitude Research Benefit Critically ill Patients?
Author(s) -
Michael P. W. Grocott
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of the intensive care society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.551
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2057-360X
pISSN - 1751-1437
DOI - 10.1177/175114370800900108
Subject(s) - critically ill , foundation (evidence) , psychology , medicine , intensive care medicine , political science , law
The Caudwell Xtreme Everest (CXE) expedition in the spring of 2007 was a large field-study investigating adaptive responses to hypoxia, and was supported by a grant from the Intensive Care Foundation. This article sets out to explain why the CXE team went to Everest, what they hope to learn, and discusses some of the key studies.
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