The Khumbu cure

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 342-345

  Basnyat, Buddha ^a  

^a NEPAL INTERNATIONAL CLINIC   (Nepal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OMEPRAZOLE; OXYGEN;

AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; CHINA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIZZINESS; GASTROENTERITIS; HELICOPTER; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; MELENA; MOUNTAINEERING; NOTE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN SUPPLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAVEL;

ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUNTAINEERING; NARRATION; NEPAL; RESCUE WORK;

EID: 31344437531     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2005.6.342     Document Type: Note

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