From mountains to the bedside: Lessons learnt from Everest // Dan Martin

What happens to your body when you climb Everest? What is the effect of the low level of oxygen? How do the Sherpas that live there adapt, and how can these lessons benefit patients in critical care units?
Lifelong climber and critical care physician Dr Dan Martin talks about his research into the effects of climbing to high altitude on the body.
Dan climbed to the summit of Mount Everest in May 2007 as part of large-scale research expedition. Measurements on his own blood revealed him to have the lowest level of oxygen ever reported in a human.
Dan, who is also the critical care lead for the High Level Isolation Unit at the Royal Free Hospital, talks about the experiments he has been doing at high altitude over the last 15 years and how the findings can help develop novel therapies to improve the survival rates of patients in intensive care units.

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@thephysiologicalsociety would you please upload other conferences from this year's annual meeting ??