Introduction Why do some critically ill patients survive physiological insults that apparently similar patients do not? It is one of the enduring questions of intensive-care medicine. Two patients may be of similar age. They may have similar diagnoses, comparable arterial oxygenation, similar haemoglobin concentrations and apparently comparable haemodynamic parameters. Both may receive sophisticated organ support. … Continue reading The Survival Gene: What Sherpa Physiology May Teach Intensive Care About Who Survives Hypoxia