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| Bibliography of High Altitude Medicine and Physiology The Bibliography of High Altitude Medicine and Physiology (BHAMP) is online at a new web site, with a faster search engine. The site is still sponsored by the National Radioastronomy Laboratory. As before, you can search to your heart's content, but you cannot download references. For full functionality you must purchase the BHAMP ($75 US + shipping and handling). It comes in formats compatible with all word processors, but for database functionality you will need one of the popular bibliography management packages (EndNote, Reference Manager, Procite can all import the BHAMP). BHAMP is provided on one CD in several formats. The CD version now includes bonus libraries with all citations from Index Medicus containing the keysords altitude, hypoxia and mountain. On special request, CDs can be provided for Macintosh computer systems. Orders to: BHAMP, PO Box 343, Montezuma, NM 87731 USA. Enquiries to rroach@hypoxia.net. |
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| High Altitude Medicine & Biology Sample & subscription info for the medical journal; available in paper and online formats. (You get both the print journal and full online access as a member of the ISMM) |
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A free, up-to-date online Emergency Medicine textbook with chapters on altitude illness (divided into Cerebral Syndromes, and Pulmonary Syndromes) - look in the Emergency Medicine text, under Environmental Emergencies. |
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| CIWEC Clinic Travel Medicine Center Kathmandu - Dr. David Shlim, longtime resident of Kathmandu has some great info here on altitude illness and travellers' diarrhea. |
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| Birmingham Medical Research Expeditionary Society A group of medical scientists actively studying the effects of altitude and the causes and management of acute mountain sickness. |
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An organization based in Kathmandu, dedicated to preventing deaths from altitude illness. |
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Medical Expeditions is a research charity dedicated to investigating the mechanisms of altitude related illness. Medex is a club that provides support for the charitable works of Medical Expeditions. Membership of Medex is open to all. So far two major research expeditions have been undertaken. Everest in 1994 and Kangchenjunga in 1998. The next major expedition is planned to visit the Makalu area in Spring 2003.
Participation in Medex events is restricted to Medex members but membership is available to anyone for a nominal charge. It is not necessary to be a medic or a climber to join Medex. Medex produces regular newsletters and organises social events to which all are very welcome as well as trips and expeditions. |
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Good information for the general public on health aspects of travel, including altitude illness, infectious diseases, vaccines, as well as extensive country-specific information on health and safety issues. |
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The British Travel Health Association
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An international travel health web site with a straightforward vaccination calculator, and general information about staying healthy while travelling. |
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| International Porter Protection Group IPPG's aim is to improve health and safety for the trekking porter at work in the mountains and reduce the incidence of avoidable illness injury and death. This is done by raising awareness of the issue among trekking and travel companies, leaders, sirdars, and trekkers. |
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Access to Journal of Physiology from 1965 to present; need not be a member. |
Journal of Exercise Physiology Online The Journal of Exercise Physiology Online, published by the American Society of Exercise Physiologists (ASEP), is a professional peer reviewed Internet-based journal devoted to original research in exercise physiology. There are frequent contributions relating to altitude issues; current and past issues are freely accessible. |
The Society For Human Performance In Extreme Environments The mission of the Society for Human Performance in Extreme Environments is to lower the boundaries between scientific disciplines and encourage collaboration and discovery concerning activities in environments in which humankind is not naturally suited to endure. |
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UIAA The UIAA is the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation. With over 90 member Associations in 62 countries, the UIAA represents several million mountaineers, climbers, hill walkers, trekkers, skiers and many others interested in visiting, climbing and protecting the mountain environment wherever they are in the world. While not strictly a mountain medicine site, the UIAA web site has consensus statements covering an extensive list of medical topics. These are written at a level of detail appropriate for physicians, interested non-medical persons, and expedition organizers. Topics include field treatment of AMS/HACE/HAPE, portable hyperbaric chambers, traveler’s diarrhea, children at altitude, the effect of extremes of temperature on drugs, women at altitude, persons with pre-existing conditions going to altitude, and first-aid kit recommendations, among others. Interested physicians can obtain information on obtaining a Diploma in Mountain Medicine by clicking on the "Mountain Medicine" link. |
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IKAR-CISA The goals of IKAR are to encourage international teamwork in mountain rescue, to ensure the best methods of rescue for injured mountaineers and wanderers and help with information and the prevention of accidents. IKAR has pursued these goals with congresses and workshops for the past 50 years. 30 national mountain rescue organisations from Europe and USA/Canada belong to IKAR. As extraordinary members, without their own rescue facilities, there are other 8 organisations, e.g. the avalanche warning services, who make their knowledge available to IKAR. |
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ICAR-MEDCOM The International Commission for Mountain Emergency Medicine ICAR MEDCOM was founded in 1948 by the Alpine countries as a sub-commission of the International Commission for Mountain Rescue with the aim of improving medical treatment of casualties in the mountains. The main goal of the Commission is the elaboration of recommendations and guidelines dealing with scientific and practical aspects of mountain rescue and emergency treatment of casualties in mountainous terrain. Moreover, preventive recommendations for mountaineers are worked out in collaboration with the Medical Commission of UIAA (The International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation). |
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Perched on the Punta Gnifetti of the Monta Rosa in Italy, this refuge dates back to the 1890s but is still extensively used by climbers and researchers. No web site, but you can see photos at the web site above. |
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This French laboratory on Mont Blanc also dates back to the late 1800s; operated by Le Service Médical de l'Ecole Nationale de Ski et d'Alpinisme (ENSA). |
| Jungfraujoch Laboratory, 3500 m For more than 60 years the Research Station at Jungfraujoch has provided the ideal surrounding for scientific research at high altitudes. The station is equipped to meet todays needs for research in the newest environmental sciences as well as in many other traditional fields. Accessed by cog railway from Interlaken; located in a spectacular setting in the Swiss Alps. |
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Mountain Research Station The White Mountain Research Station (WMRS) is a multi-campus research unit of the University of California. WMRS was established in 1950 to provide laboratory, teaching, and housing facilities for researchers doing field work in the Eastern Sierra. While WMRS was originally used for research in high-elevation physiology, it is now used also by scientists in such diverse fields as archaeology, astronomy, atmospheric science, ecology, geology, plant biology, and zoology. Four facilities are available:
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Located on the summit of Pikes Peak, Colorado, USA; operated by the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick, Massachusetts. |
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| Instituto Investigaciones de la Altura, Cerro de Pasco, 4340 m Operated by the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, this laboratory is in a high Peruvian mining town. |
| Laboratorio Fisica Cosmica Chacaltaya, 5200 m Operated by the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia, this laboratory is 30 km by road from La Paz, Bolivia; it can be used by arrangement though it was not designed for biological research. |
| Chajnantor Site, North Chile, 5050 m This high plateau is the site of several current and planned telescopes; it is accessible by road. |
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In 1990, following an agreement with the Royal Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (RONAST), the Italian National Research Center (CNR) installed a scientific laboratory at 5,050 m altitude. This laboratory, immediately named the "Piramide" due to its shape, is located in one of the highest inhabited places in the world: the Khumbu valley, at the foot of Mount Everest. It allows Italian and foreign research institutes to plan and carry out research programs previously difficult or impossible due to lack of facilities. |
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Run by the Himalaya Rescue Association, the facilities have been recently upgraded to provide water, power, and heat, with space added to house persons interested in doing high altitude research projects. |
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The University of Barcelona has a hypobaric chamber with a capacity of eight people, available for research as well as intermittant hypoxic training, acclimatization, and studying an individual for tolerance to hypoxia. The maximal limit for simulated altitude is set at 6,000m. |
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The Netherlands Aeromedical Institute has high altitude chambers that can be made available for medical research; contact Robert A. Roe, Director, Netherlands Aeromedical Institute. |
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| High Altitude Sports Training Complex Northern Arizona University coordinates a variety of high-altitude training camps in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA for elite-level amateur and professional athletes. |
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Chinook is the supplier for the Gamow Bag®, and also carries portable pulse oximeters, has a one-of-a-kind catalog section on High Altitude Medicine Gear and Oxygen, and carries a variety of other wilderness-related medical supplies. |
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Supplier for the Portable Altitue Chamber (PAC), an Australian portable hyperbaric chamber. |
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Manufacturers of the CERTEC portable hyperbaric chamber; information available in both French and English. |
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Suppliers of hypothermia technology/equipment. |
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