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L Wallis, J Matthews. Medical Support on a Himalayan Expedition.
Introduction The number of people travelling to high altitude regions, especially in South America, Nepal and India, has risen enormously in the past 10 years. Alongside this increasing popularity of altitude trekking there has been an increase in the number of service expeditions. In October 2000, a Joint Service Expedition spent a month in Nepal attempting to scale Lobuche East, one of the tr...
متن کاملMedical problems of a high altitude Himalayan expedition.
Introduction Exercise Himalayan Venture VI was the Army Mountaineering Association Expedition to Mount Api (23,390 ft), West Nepal in the Spring of 1980_ The expedition consisted of a party of 12 British servicemen accompanied by seven Nepalis travelling from Kathmandu by road through Nepal and India for one week to a roadhead at Dandeldhura, and then on foot through Far West Nepal for two week...
متن کاملBirmingham Medical Research Expeditionary Society 1977 Expedition: cardiopulmonary function before, during and after a twenty-one-day Himalayan trek.
The heart rate response to exercise was studied in 17 normal subjects before, during and after a 21-day Himalayan trek to 5490 m. The group were fitter before the trek when compared to normal subjects of a similar age (P less than 0.001) having a lower heart rate response to exercise for their lean body mass. The trek significantly increased the 'fitness' of the group as a whole (P less than 0....
متن کاملVirginia Apgar (1909-1974)
Virginia Apgar worked as an obstetrical anesthesiologist, administering drugs that reduce women's pain during childbirth, in the mid-twentieth century US. In 1953, Apgar created a scoring system using five easily assessable measurements, including heart rate and breathing rate, to evaluate whether or not infants would benefit from medical attention immediately after birth. Apgar's system showed...
متن کاملVirginia Apgar (1909-1974)
Virginia Apgar worked as an obstetrical anesthesiologist, administering drugs that reduce women's pain during childbirth, in the mid-twentieth century US. In 1953, Apgar created a scoring system using five easily assessable measurements, including heart rate and breathing rate, to evaluate whether or not infants would benefit from medical attention immediately after birth. Apgar's system showed...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Geographical Journal
سال: 1910
ISSN: 0016-7398
DOI: 10.2307/1777121