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Environmental Problems––Outline

1. Heat disorders

  • Physiology of heat production and loss
  • Clinical disorders: heat cramps, heat exhaustion, heat stroke
  • Prevention

2. Altitude illness

  • Physiologic adaptation to altitude
  • Clinical problems
    • Acute mountain sickness
    • High altitude pulmonary edema
    • High altitude cerebral edema
    • Mountaineering accidents

 

 

 


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