SoCIETy researchers became focused on altitude effects on humans and other animals.
West5 has written a comprehensive recent review on the history of these early altitude …

It was not until 1978 that, after many unsuccessful attempts, the summit of Mount Everest
(8850 m) was reached by climbers breathing only ambient air. This challenge was first …

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 …

Airway management is primarily designed to avoid hypoxia, yet hypoxia remains the main
ultimate cause of anaesthetic‐related death and morbidity. Understanding some of the …

Pathways that sense a reduction in available oxygen are critical in the adaptation to lower
oxygen tensions at high altitude. Alterations in this system can contribute to the …

For centuries man has strived to reach the greatest heights on earth. In order to explain the
physiological changes that are needed to achieve this, physiologists have tended to focus …

Both the high altitude physiologist and the intensivist are challenged by the human organism
in a hypoxic environment. The variation in barometric pressure which occurs with latitude …

Barometric pressure (PB) decreases in a nonlinear fashion with altitude, vertical height gain
above the Earth's surface. The percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere remains constant …

After shock, persistent oxygen extraction deficit despite the apparent adequate recovery of
systemic hemodynamic and oxygen-derived variables has been a source of uncertainty and …

Human tolerance to chronic severe hypoxia has been elucidated by two recent high altitude
studies: the 1981 American Medical Research Expedition to Everest, and Operation Everest …