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Everest Breathing Device: From The Mountain to the Bedside

Posted on September 23, 2008

A device which almost helped Tom Bourdillon to reach the peak of the Everest (three days before Sir Edmund Hillary) is being resurrected to help people suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Researchers from University College London's Centre for Altitude, Space and Extreme Environment Medicine, who rediscovered the functionality of the device, are teaming up with Smiths Medical to develop a product for COPD patients and those who are oxygen-depended in critical care units:Bourdillon s research was rediscovered by Jeremy Windsor and Roger McMorrow, mountaineering scien...

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chronic obstructive pulmonary disease , copd , exercise