12th Annual Update in Altitude and Expedition Medicine 2019

  • Jun 2019
  • Cusco, Peru

Description

The 12th Annual Update in Altitude and Expedition Medicine 2019 is a conference and tour to Adventurous locations with high altitude.

The 12th Annual Update in Altitude and Expedition Medicine 2019 includes topics such as:

  • History of high altitude exploration
  • Introduction to altitude medicine
  • Acclimitisation
  • Altitude physiology
  • Acute Mountain Sickness
  • Adaptation
  • Determing fitness to climb
  • HAPE and HACE
  • Improvisation in an altitude environment
  • Altitude nutrition
  • Hypothermia
  • Expedition medicine
  • Drugs and altitude
  • Heat stress
  • Avalanche medicine
  • Lightning strike
  • Why things go wrong
  • Exercise at altitude
  • The latest research
  • Altitude case studies

The 12th Annual Update in Altitude and Expedition Medicine 2019 conference brings together medical practitioners including physicians, nurses, paramedics and medical students.

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Health & Medicine: Emergency medicine

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