Anaesthesia and high altitude: a history.

During an expedition to climb Everest in 1933, expedition doctor Raymond Greene administered an open-drop chloroform anaesthetic to a Tibetan patient at an altitude of more than 14,000 feet. The patient's subsequent apparent cardiopulmonary arrest has long been attributed to the effects of alti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Firth, P, Pattinson, K
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2008