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The High Altitude Medicine Guide provides current medical information on the prevention, recognition, and treatment of altitude illness, as well as other health issues affecting travellers to high mountainous regions of the world. Information content is designed for the use of physicians and non-physicians alike.
     
Altitude Illness
Altitude illness explained
Physician's Clinical Guide
Hot Topics - Ginkgo for prevention of AMS
Lake Louise Criteria for AMS, HACE, HAPE
Lake Louise AMS Questionnaire
Hyperbaric treatment
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Travellers' Diarrhea
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Emergency & Wilderness Medicine

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