High-altitude physiology and pathophysiology: implications and relevance for intensive care medicine

Cellular hypoxia is a fundamental mechanism of injury in the critically ill. The study of human responses to hypoxia occurring as a consequence of hypobaria defines the fields of high-altitude medicine and physiology. A new paradigm suggests that the physiological and pathophysiological responses to...

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Main Authors: Grocott, Michael (Author), Montgomery, Hugh (Author), Vercueil, Andre (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2007-02.
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