Mount Everest Study

NINE healthy British children, aged 6 to 13, are to travel to Mount Everest to take part in a ground-breaking medical study that aims to develop new treatments for critically ill children and those with both breathing and sleep problems.

The Smiths Medical Young Everest Study (SMYES) will investigate how the children cope with low oxygen levels on the world’s highest mountain.

Doctors do not yet fully understand children’s responses to low oxygen levels, which are common in very sick children and can be fatal.

By investigating how healthy children’s bodies cope and adapt at altitude, the SMYES team hopes to improve the chances of survival for very sick children. It also aims to improve the quality of life of those with chronic/long term lung diseases and to develop new methods of detecting and treating children with disturbed sleep patterns.

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For more information on SMYES go to:
www.smiths-medical.com/youngeverest.

For more information on CXE go to:
www.caudwell-xtreme-everest.co.uk

For more information on research into children’s
lung and sleep disorders go to:
http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ich