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Mountain Medicine

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Mountain Medicine
A subspecialty of wilderness medicine that addresses medical/technical aspects of high-altitude travel/mountain sports
Areas of interest Mountain rescue and resuscitation, high-altitude physiology and pathophysiology, ‘mountain diseases’—e.g., frostbite, hypobaric hypoxia, mountain sickness, pulmonary oedema, solar radiation
mountain medicine
A subspecialty of wilderness medicine that addresses medical/technical aspects of high-altitude travel/mountain sports Areas of interest Mountain rescue and resuscitation, high-altitutude physiology and pathophysiology, 'mountain diseases'–eg, frostbite, hypobaric hypoxia, mountain sickness, pulmonary edema, solar radiation. See Mountain sickness, Wilderness medicine.
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The material is grouped into major topics, including cold and heat, injuries and medical interventions, mountain medicine, rescue and survival, and food and water.
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