Clinical care in extreme environments: physiology at high altitude and in space
Clinical care in extreme environments: physiology at high altitude and in space
□ High altitude or space environments present a number of extreme physiologic challenges that must be overcome in order to survive.
□ Given sufficient time, humans can adapt to both hypobaric hypoxia and microgravity.
□ Lack of adaptation can lead to environment-specific illnesses, such as acute mountain sickness,
high-altitude pulmonary edema, decompression illness, or the acute worsening of comorbid conditions.
□ These conditions can rapidly become fatal if not treated appropriately (e.g., with either descent to lower altitudes or returning to the Earth’s surface).
□ Providing critical care or anesthesia in such environments is further complicated by their ex- treme levels of remoteness.
□ Exploratory missions to such environments depend on the development and vetting of robust and simple health care protocols.
Hypoxia, physiology, altitude, space, anaesthesia, medicine
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Cumpstey, Andrew
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Grocott, Michael
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Jackson, Alexander
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Wiener-Kronish, Jeanine P.
2020
Cumpstey, Andrew
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Grocott, Michael
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Jackson, Alexander
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Wiener-Kronish, Jeanine P.
Cumpstey, Andrew, Grocott, Michael and Jackson, Alexander
(2020)
Clinical care in extreme environments: physiology at high altitude and in space.
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Gropper, Michael A., Eriksson, Lars I., Fleisher, Lee A., Wiener-Kronish, Jeanine P., Cohen, Neal H. and Leslie, Kate
(eds.)
Miller's Anaesthesia.
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Canada.
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Abstract
□ High altitude or space environments present a number of extreme physiologic challenges that must be overcome in order to survive.
□ Given sufficient time, humans can adapt to both hypobaric hypoxia and microgravity.
□ Lack of adaptation can lead to environment-specific illnesses, such as acute mountain sickness,
high-altitude pulmonary edema, decompression illness, or the acute worsening of comorbid conditions.
□ These conditions can rapidly become fatal if not treated appropriately (e.g., with either descent to lower altitudes or returning to the Earth’s surface).
□ Providing critical care or anesthesia in such environments is further complicated by their ex- treme levels of remoteness.
□ Exploratory missions to such environments depend on the development and vetting of robust and simple health care protocols.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 14 October 2019
Published date: 2020
Keywords:
Hypoxia, physiology, altitude, space, anaesthesia, medicine
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Andrew Cumpstey
Author:
Alexander Jackson
Editor:
Michael A. Gropper
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Lars I. Eriksson
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Lee A. Fleisher
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Jeanine P. Wiener-Kronish
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Neal H. Cohen
Editor:
Kate Leslie
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