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High Altitude Medicine and Physiology 5E
- 584 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
High Altitude Medicine and Physiology 5E
About this book
A comprehensive update to this preeminent and accessible text, this fifth edition of a bestseller was developed as a response to man's attempts to climb unaided to higher altitudes and to spend more time in these conditions for both work and recreation. It describes the ever-expanding challenges that doctors face in dealing with the changes in huma
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Yes, you can access High Altitude Medicine and Physiology 5E by John West,Robert Schoene,Andrew Luks,James Milledge in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & Anatomy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Conversion tables
- List of abbreviations
- 1. History
- 2. The atmosphere
- 3. Geography and the human response to altitude
- 4. Genetics and high altitude
- 5. Altitude acclimatization and deterioration
- 6. Control of breathing at high altitude
- 7. Pulmonary gas exchange
- 8. Cardiovascular system
- 9. Hematology
- 10. Blood-gas transport and acid–base balance
- 11. Peripheral tissues
- 12. Exercise
- 13. Limiting factors at extreme altitude
- 14. Sleep
- 15. Nutrition, metabolism and intestinal function
- 16. Endocrine and renal systems at altitude
- 17. Central nervous system
- 18. High altitude populations
- 19. Acute mountain sickness
- 20. High altitude cerebral edema
- 21. High altitude pulmonary edema
- 22. Chronic mountain sickness and high altitude pulmonary hypertension
- 23. Other altitude-related conditions
- 24. Physiology and medical aspects of heat and cold
- 25. Pre-existing medical conditions at altitude
- 26. Women at altitude
- 27. Extremes of age at altitude: children and the elderly
- 28. Commercial, scientific and military activities at high altitude
- 29. Athletes and altitude
- References