登山无论体格，造福重症患者
人们往往相信 登山需要体格强健 Hugh Montgomery教授却不这么认为
他不仅坚持登山无论体格 还主张明白登山原理有助于挽救生命 ...
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Mount Everest
Hugh Montgomery
University College Hospital in London
Lynda La Plante
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口语节目链接：http://bulo.hujiang.com/menu/2120/item/669309/http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201210/201210130817554375540.mp3How can understanding what it takes to climb Mount Everest help to save lives on intensive care wards? Hugh Montgomery is a professor of intensive care medicine at University College Hospital in London. His breakthrough discovery was finding the first gene for fitness. And he studies the effects of fitness or lack of it under duress, be that at high altitude up a mountain or in a hospital ward, both situations where the body is being put under great pressure to cope. Away from academia, he's written children's books and advises crime writer Lynda La Plante. But his driving goal is to find new treatments for people in intensive care, and to uncover why it is that some people do so much better than others. Work on an intensive care unit, he says, brings home just how short life can be.
Hugh, at first glance it seems very counterintuitive, this idea, to make the connection between intensive care patients and mountaineers. Surely they're at opposite ends of the health spectrum.
"Well, remarkably not. I suppose you could say you have to be pretty fit in some regards to climb a big hill. But it turns out actually that you don't. And by any conventional measure of physical fitness, extreme mountaineers aren't a great deal fitter than your average couch potato. So there's something else that allows them to get up there, just as it is there's something else on an intensive care unit that allows your average couch potato or even athlete to live or die."明白攀登珠峰所需的条件，这对在重症监护病房挽救生命有何帮助？休·蒙哥马利是伦敦大学学院医院重症护理医疗方面的教授。他发现了首个健康基因，这项发现具有突破性意义。他研究在压力环境下健康或缺乏健康造成的影响，不论是在高山之巅还是在医院病房——两种环境下人体都要对抗巨大的压力。学术之余，他还为孩子们写书，并为罪案作家琳达·拉·普兰特的写作提供建议。但驱策他工作的最重要目标还是设法医治处在重症护理下的病人，揭示为何有些病人康复状况较好的原因。他说，在重症护理病房工作，会格外明白生命何其短暂。
“休，乍看上去，把重症监护病人和登山者联系在一起似乎有悖常理，从健康程度来看，这两者显然处在两个极端啊。”
“唔，其实完全不是这样。我想你可能会说，要攀登一座大山，身体一定要非常健康才行，但其实这并非必须。而且无论是以哪一项传统的身体健康来衡量，极限登山者都并不比大家这样整天坐着不动的人健康多少。所以让他们登上高峰的一定有其他因素，正如身患重症时，也一定有什么原因决定普通人抑或运动员的生死存亡。”
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