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Caudwell Xtreme Everest: An Overview

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Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 903))

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The Caudwell Xtreme Everest (CXE) expedition in the spring of 2007 systematically studied 222 healthy volunteers as they ascended from sea level to Everest Base Camp (5300 m). A subgroup of climbing investigators ascended higher on Everest and obtained physiological measurements up to an altitude of 8400 m. The aim of the study was to explore inter-individual variation in response to environmental hypobaric hypoxia in order to understand better the pathophysiology of critically ill patients and other patients in whom hypoxaemia and cellular hypoxia are prevalent. This paper describes the aims, study characteristics, organization and management of the CXE expedition.

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  1. Caudwell Xtreme Everest Research Group, London, UK

    Michael P. W. Grocott, D. Z. H. Levett, D. S. Martin, M. H. Wilson, A. Mackenney, S. Dhillon, H. E. Montgomery, M. G. Mythen & K. Mitchell

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  1. Altitude Research Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical, AURORA, Colorado, USA

    Robert C. Roach

  2. Institute for Altitude Medicine, Telluride, Colorado, USA

    Peter H. Hackett

  3. Division of Physiology 0623A, University of California - San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA

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Grocott, M.P.W. et al. (2016). Caudwell Xtreme Everest: An Overview. In: Roach, R., Hackett, P., Wagner, P. (eds) Hypoxia. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 903. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7678-9_28

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