Chamonix Hospital Cold Injury Page (Health/Injuries)
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Description: Research, evaluation, prevention and information in Mountain Medicine and Traumatology.... By Mountain Medicine and Traumatology Department of Chamonix Hospital
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HighAltitude Medical Guide (Health/Injuries)
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Description: Information on the prevention, recognition, and treatment of altitude illness, as... well as other health issues affecting travelers to destinations at altitude.The High Altitude Medicine Guide. These web pages provide information about altitude illness and other health issues affecting travellers to high mountainous regions of the world
Specializes in: high altitude illness acute mountain sickness ams pulmonary... edema hape

Cerebral Syndromes (Health/Injuries)
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Description: Article from Emergency Medicine covering cerebral syndromes in altitude sickness... from AMS to HACE.Altitude Illness Cerebral Syndromes Altitude illness refers to a constellation of syndromes that result from hypoxic injury alone or in combination with various maladaptive physiological changes. Cerebral syndromes usually develop at altitudes above 2500 m (8000 ft). Everyone traveling to altitude is at risk, regardless of the level of physical fitness or previous altitude experience.The cerebral form of altitude illness includes a spectrum of severity from mild (eg, acute mountain sickness [AMS]) to severe (eg, highaltitude cerebral
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eMedicine Health Mountain Sickness (Health/Injuries)
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Description: Consumer health resource center providing information on the causes, symptoms, and... treatment.Mountain sickness is an illness that ranges from a mild headache and weariness to a lifethreatening buildup of fluid in the lungs or brain at high altitudes. Acute mountain sickness
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