Caudwell Xtreme Everest: a field study of human adaptation to hypoxiaCritical Care - Tập 11 - Trang 1-2 - 2007
Mike Grocott, Alan Richardson, Hugh Montgomery, Monty Mythen
Caudwell Xtreme Everest (CXE) is a large healthy volunteer field study investigating human adaptation to environmental hypoxia. More than 200 individuals were studied at sea-level and in four laboratories on the trek to Everest Base Camp (5,300 m). Fifteen physicians climbed high on Everest and continued the studies as they ascended; eight of these individuals reached the summit of Everest and suc...... hiện toàn bộ
Resilience is a dirty word: misunderstood, and how we can truly build itCritical Care - Tập 26 - Trang 1-3 - 2022
Mark Z. Y. Tan
Resilience is ubiquitous in everyday speech, academic literature and governmental policies. Yet it seems to have taken a narrow scope in healthcare, confined to individual and psychological resilience. This short essay aims to broaden the understanding of resilience to organisational levels and calls intensivists to take active roles in fostering resilience for their staff. The article explores fi...... hiện toàn bộ
Antithrombin in sepsis revisitedCritical Care - Tập 9 - Trang 1-2 - 2005
Marcel Levi
As the pivotal phase III randomized controlled clinical trial on antithrombin concentrate in patients with severe sepsis did not show a beneficial effect of antithrombin treatment on 28-day mortality, the interest in the potential use of this treatment modality in sepsis has diminished. However, recent data on the effect of antithrombin administration on coagulation in combination with recent anal...... hiện toàn bộ