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BMC Physiology BioMedCentral Methodology article Open Access A strategy for determining arterial blood gases on the summit of Mt. Everest Thomas F Catron, Frank L Powell and John B West* Address: Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla CA 92093-0623, USA Email: Thomas F Catron - tcatron@; Frank L Powell - fpowell@; John B West* - jwest@ * Corresponding author Published: 08 March 2006 Received: 29 December 2005 Accepted: 08 March 2006 BMC Physiology2006, 6:3 doi:10.1186/1472-6793-6-3 This article is available from: /1472-6793/6/3 ? 2006Catron et al; licensee