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Xtreme Everest 2: exploiting extreme conditions to benefit critically ill patients

Fiona Pring on May 10, 2013 at 11:09 am - 0 Comments

Two months into a research expedition to Mount Everest, Extreme Physiology & Medicine Editor-in-Chief Mike Grocott, reports from the trip. Researchers on the Xtreme Everest 2 expedition are comparing Sherpa and “lowlander” physiology.

The Sherpas are a group known to perform extraordinarily well at altitude. The team record the physiological responses of healthy individuals in this extreme environment – low oxygen levels at high altitude – and apply this research to patients in intensive care. This is very much in line with the Extreme Physiology & Medicine’s objectives, outlined in its launch editorial, to explore boundary physiology and translate research findings into a clinical setting.

Mike provided this update:

“All our recruited subjects have now been …

Personal career perspectives in Extreme Physiology & Medicine

Fiona Pring on November 14, 2012 at 3:12 pm - 0 Comments

The best biographies are autobiographies. Thus, Hugh Montgomery and Mike Grocott, Editors-in-Chief of Extreme Physiology & Medicine, have commissioned a series of career perspectives from research experts in the field. These short personal reviews are written by eminent academics discussing their life’s work and influences so far.

First to reflect on a career’s worth of experience are Jim Milledge, Mike Sawka and John West.

Jim Milledge’s interest in high altitude began as a child, hill walking in Snowdonia. Combining research with clinical medicine in his day job, his career was interspersed with expeditions to study the effects of altitude on various aspects of human physiology.

John West

Among those that influenced him, Jim …

Extreme Physiology & Medicine – a new journal launched today!

Fiona Pring on September 4, 2012 at 12:39 pm - 0 Comments

When, in the early 1770s, Joseph Priestley conducted his bell jar experiments with mice and mint plants, could he have imagined that these experiments would be repeated over 200 years later with a human subject? Well, they have been! ‘A paradigm of fragile Earth in Priestley’s bell jar‘ is among the first articles to be published in Extreme Physiology & Medicine.

Exploring how the body functions at the limits of survival, and then applying this research to enhance knowledge of pathophysiology in the critically ill, is a core mission of the new open access journal. It will focus on integrative human physiology …