The International Society on Oxygen Transport

Kyiv is the city where the new and the old create excellent possibilities for historical and aesthetical exploration. Nevertheless, before you visit this fantastic city, take your time to decide on at least two points: where you will spend your nights and how you are going to get around the place.

Let us discuss choosing an apartment. Depending on your budget and your tastes, you could either choose to stay in a Kiev hotel, or rent an apartment. Mind the class of Kiev hotels to estimate the quality of the service and accommodation and the price you are willing to pay for it.

The Ukrainian capital boasts of several five and four star hotels. There are virtually dozens of less posh Kiev accommodation facilities. A luxury accommodation is going to cost you around $400-850 per 24 hrs, 4 stars will cost $150-$500, 3 star hotels will cost you about $70-300, 2 stars will cost from $50 to 120 and small and one star hotels cost around 25-100 per night.

There exist also several hostels in the city for youth. In a regular hostel you will have unpretentious but clean accommodation facilities and several sofas or beds in one and the same room.

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The International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue is an interdisciplinary society comprising about 250 members worldwide. Its purpose is to further the understanding of all aspects of the processes involved in the transport of oxygen from the air to its ultimate consumption in the cells of the various organs of the body.

The annual meeting brings together scientists, engineers, clinicians and mathematicians in a unique international forum for the exchange of information and knowledge, the updating of participants on latest developments and techniques, and the discussion of controversial issues within the field of oxygen transport to tissue.

Founded in 1973, the society has been the leading platform for the presentation of many of the technological and conceptual developments within the field both at the meetings themselves and in the proceedings of the society. These are currently published by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers in its Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology series.

Examples of areas in which members have made highly significant contributions include electrode techniques, spectrophotometric methods, mathematical modeling of oxygen transport, the understanding of local regulation of oxygen supply to tissue and fluorocarbons/blood substitutes.