Mountaineers Measure Lowest Human Blood Oxygen Levels On Record
Wednesday, January 7, 2009 - 18:42
in Health & Medicine
The lowest ever levels of oxygen in humans have been reported in climbers on an expedition led by UCL doctors. The world-first measurements of blood oxygen levels in climbers near the top of Mount Everest, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, could eventually help critical care doctors to re-evaluate treatment strategies in some long-term patients with similarly low levels of blood oxygen.