Everest: Doctors in the Death Zone

Synopsis: Imagine being short of oxygen, fighting for breath, your lungs filling with fluid, brain swelling, struggling to stay alive. This is what it feels like to a patient in intensive care as they struggle to get oxygen around their bodies. This is also how a mountaineer battling towards the summit of Everest feels. At 8,848 metres, Everest lies in the death zone - the area that’'s so high up, there is barely enough oxygen to stay alive. As they attempt to reach the summit, using themselves as guinea pigs and the mountain as their laboratory, a British team of doctors literally risk their lives to help save the lives of their patients
Series: Horizonl, Series
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2008
Year of production: 2007
Notes: Broadcast on BBC2 on 30/9/2007
Subjects: Medical sciences
Keywords: human biology; intensive care nursing; medical experimentation; Mount Everest; oxygen

Name: BBC Active Video for Learning - now BBC Learning
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Notes: The BBC Active company has now been absorbed within BBC Learning, a division of BBC Studios. It was originally a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Pearson Education. Formerly known as ‘BBC Worldwide Learning Studies’ and before that as ‘Videos for Education & Training’

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