The high altitude medical handbook

Handbook of Medical Diagnosis

It is certainly splendid book. It is divided into four parts?diagnosis in general, methods and their immediate results, symptoms and signs and their clinical application. Dr. Wilson is Professor of Clinical Medicine in the wellknown Jefferson Medical College and has a vast experience. The big volume is one that, cannot lie briefly reviewed, it consists of 1,415 pnges. We have read many of them ...

Handbook for Medical Subordinates

Medical 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...

Working at High Altitude: Medical Problems, Misconceptions, and Solutions

The high-altitude brain.

The highest place on our planet, Mount Everest (8850 m), appears to be close to the limit of how high an acclimatized human can go, albeit slowly. In this paper, I will explore the possibility that what limits human performance at such extreme degrees of hypoxia is the availability of oxygen to the brain. Also, one of the known costs of such extreme exposure is residual mild impairment of perfo...