Sidmouth Science Festival - Dr Mary Slingo - Survival at the limits - from mountains to intensive care medicine

The human body is capable of extremes: we can survive at altitudes so high that there is barely enough oxygen to support life, yet we can also succumb to critical illnesses that require all of the life-support machines of a modern intensive care unit.

This talk will discuss what happens to the human body in these extreme environments.

Dr Mary Slingo is a senior anaesthetic registrar in Hampshire, and has a Doctorate from the University of Oxford. She is a passionate rock climber and has worked as a doctor on two expeditions to the Himalayas. Recently, she has been working on the front-line in Covid-19 Intensive Care.

7:30pm - 8:30pm Zoom.